Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation to ensure federal grant recipients like the EcoHealth Alliance disclose to the funding agencies whenever they in turn pass funds to other recipients like China’s Wuhan lab. “Despite skirting federal law and refusing to disclose how much U.S. taxpayer money was funneled to Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the details about the coronavirus research the funding supported, EcoHealth Alliance was rewarded with another $7.5 million,” Ernst said in a statement Tuesday. “Iowa taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill for any organization that fails to comply with federal law. My bill would prevent federal funding from going to organizations, like EcoHealth, until they provide answers on how and where taxpayer dollars are being spent,” she said. The Ernst bill is titled “Stop the Outlay of Payments Act” (STOP) and it requires funding agencies to suspend grants to recipients who …