Republicans Demand Biden Declassify COVID-19 Origins Documents as Deadline Looms

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asks questions to witnesses as they testify before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, in Washington on Sept. 21, 2021. Ken Cedeno/Pool/Getty Images

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) are tapping their watches at President Joe Biden as a deadline looms for his administration to declassify all of its documents on the origins of COVID-19.

In March, Biden signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which requires the Director of National Intelligence to “declassify any and all information” relating to links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origins of COVID-19 within 90 days of the law’s enactment. That 90-day deadline is set to run out on Sunday, June 18.