Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced two bills requiring transparency for taxpayer dollars spent on projects in China and other adversarial countries.
On Tuesday, Ernst introduced the Tracking Receipts to Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending Act and the Accountability in Foreign Animal Research Act. The bills target high-risk medical research and spending perceived as wasteful.
The TRACKS Act would establish standards for disclosing all data regarding U.S. funding for projects in adversarial countries.
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The AFAR Act would ban the Department of Health and Human Services from sending taxpayer funds “to directly or indirectly conduct biomedical research or experimentation that involves testing on vertebrate animals in any facility” owned by adversarial countries.
The release of the bills was timed to coincide with Tax Day.
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