US Needs to Pull Its Supply Chain Out of China Over COVID-19 Pandemic: Top House Lawmaker

The P4 laboratory (L) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on May 27, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

Amid growing speculation that COVID-19 may have originated from a Chinese laboratory, one of the top House Republicans suggested that the United States should retaliate by removing the United States’ supply chain from the region.

When asked about what actions the Biden administration should take, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking GOP member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United States should simply pull out of China and the region.