New York City Mayor Eric Adams resettled illegal immigrants who had arrived in the Big Apple across the country and around the world, including China, according to a new report. 

Adams, who called Texas sending illegal migrants to New York “horrific,” sent 114 migrant households to over a dozen states and to five countries, including China, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, POLITICO reported.

“Less than three weeks ago, Mayor Adams said busing migrants is ‘morally bankrupt.’ Where is all the outrage and condemnation from the White House and Democrats for one of their own sending migrants out of town, out of state, and even out of the country?” a spokesperson for Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in response. “Instead of these hypocritical charades, Mayor Adams needs to call on President Biden and Congress to step up and do their jobs to secure the southern border.” 

POLITICO obtained the information through a public information request, finding that the city spent $50,000 of taxpayer money on the flights from April 2022-April 2023. More than a dozen states were sent illegal immigrants including 28 households to Florida, 14 to Texas, six to North Carolina, and five to Illinois. 

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Kate Smart, a spokeswoman for Adams, defended the move, arguing that it was different from what Abbott and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had done. 

“In contrast, New York City has, as we have discussed very publicly for months, worked to connect individuals with friends, family, and networks whether in New York City or outside of it,” Smart said. “We are not coercing people to leave, we are not suggesting or recommending locations, and we are not presenting any kind of false choice. We are helping people who want to reconnect with loved ones or communities do so.”

Adams has not been shy about his distaste for Abbott, who has sent nearly 10,000 migrants to New York. 

“This is horrific when you think about what [Abbott] is doing,” Adams said during an August press conference. “New York is a city that has always represented democratic values. Showing our values.”

“It is unimaginable what the governor of Texas has done,” he claimed. “When you think about this country, a country that has always been open to those who are fleeing persecution and other intolerable conditions.”

House Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have subpoenaed one of the authors of a controversial paper on the origins of COVID that cast doubt on the lab leak theory.

The subcommittee, led by Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup and tasked with investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic, has subpoenaed documents and communications from Dr. Kristian Anderson. Anderson was one of the scientists who helped to draft the “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper that cast doubt on earlier theories that COVID may have escaped from a lab. 

“We are following the breadcrumbs of a COVID-19 cover-up straight to the source. Dr. Kristian Andersen played a pivotal role in potentially suppressing the lab leak hypothesis, and Americans deserve to know why this happened, who was involved, and how we can prevent the intentional suppression of scientific discourse during a future pandemic,” Wenstrup said in a statement. 

The widely criticized article co-authored by Anderson, published in March 2020, said that it was clear that COVID was not developed in a lab. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the abstract of the article says. 

Since that time, multiple reports, including reports from the Department of Energy and Senate Republicans, have suggested that the once widely mocked lab leak theory appears to be increasingly plausible. 

The subcommittee hopes to obtain Slack messages sent or received by Anderson pertaining to the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the paper. They also asked for messages and documentation on the Wuhan Coronavirus Lab, gain of function research, and other discussions of the pandemic’s origin. 

Messages from Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, and a number of other scientists are also requested by the subcommittee. 

“It is clear that the authors of ‘Proximal Origins’ may have possessed conflicts of interest for supporting a zoonotic origin of COVID-19. Fully investigating the internal messages between the co-authors and contributors is a crucial step to inform future legislation and hold guilty parties accountable. The Select Subcommittee looks forward to Dr. Andersen’s speedy and comprehensive response to today’s subpoena,” Wenstrup said.  

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A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released Friday evening shows that some federal agencies believe a lab leak is likely while others favor the natural emergence of COVID. 

According to the report, the FBI and the Department of Energy “assess that a laboratory-associated incident” was the most likely cause of COVID. The report says that “almost all” intelligence community agencies do not believe that the virus was genetically modified.