A June 18 deadline for President Joe Biden’s administration to declassify and release documents pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 has come and gone without a clear response.
In March, lawmakers passed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The legislation passed unanimously in the Senate before a 419-0 voice vote in the House of Representatives. Biden signed the bill into law on March 20, just 20 days after its formal introduction.
The COVID-19 Origin Act gave the Biden administration 90 days from the day the president signed the bill into law to “declassify and make available to the public as much information as possible” about the true origin of COVID-19. The 90-day deadline gave the Biden administration until Sunday, June 18 to meet the declassification requirements….