GOP Senators Demand Biden Ban Travel from China in Response to ‘Mystery Illness’

Five Republican senators are demanding that President Joe Biden implement a ban on travel from China in response to reports of a “mystery illness” infecting Chinese children.

In a letter sent Friday, Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida, J.D. Vance of Ohio, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, and Mike Braun of Indiana called on Biden to help prevent the spread of the pneumonia-related disease by restricting travel between the two nations until more information is gathered about the health outbreak. The lawmakers urged the White House to take immediate action, given the Chinese Communist Party’s “long history of lying about public health crises” such as Covid-19.

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP’s obfuscation of the truth, and lack of transparency, robbed the United States of vital knowledge about the disease and its origin,” the letter reads.