President Joe Biden quietly signed into law a bill requiring the declassification of intelligence on the origins of COVID-19.
The White House announced the move in a press release Monday night, folding it into the same statement saying he had signed the congressional resolution overturning a controversial Washington, D.C., crime measure.
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Biden had previously indicated that he would sign the Washington crime bill reversal, but the White House had stayed mum on what it would do about the COVID-19 bill once it cleared Congress.
The White House had been noncommittal about the legislation before it passed. Biden issued a statement directly addressing the COVID-19 bill shortly afterward.
“I share the Congress’s goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19),” Biden said. “In 2021, I directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that work is ongoing. We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics.”
A veto would have been difficult to sustain. The COVID-19 legislation passed both houses of Congress unanimously, far exceeding the two-thirds majorities required to override the veto.
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It is possible that some Democrats would have reversed their position to back the president.
Biden vetoed the first bill of his presidency on Monday, an anti-environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, measure.
