Gain‑of‑Function Oversight Failed

The White House frames the pandemic not just as a public‑health catastrophe but as the predictable result of broken oversight: U.S. grant processes, interagency recordkeeping, and international inspection regimes allegedly allowed high‑risk gain‑of‑function work to proceed without transparency or enforceable checks. It cites EcoHealth Alliance funding, NIH/HHS procedural failures, HHS delays to oversight requests, and a possible DOJ probe as evidence. — If true, this recasts the pandemic origin debate into a policy and national‑security imperative to rebuild grant accountability, public records compliance, and global lab‑safety inspection mechanisms.