Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says that China should consider waiving some of the United States' debt due to its role in the spread of the coronavirus.
During an interview on WVNN's "The Jeff Poor Show" in Huntsville, Alabama, Blackburn listed several ways that China can and should be held accountable for lying to the world about COVID-19 while also highlighting her effort to implicate China's role in the spread of the disease.
Blackburn said, "One of the things is my Senate Resolution 553, which it expresses the sense of the Senate - that we know this came from Wuhan, China, and that they hid the information and were not transparent, that they blocked the World Health Organization and the CDC from coming into help. They tried to blame it on the U.S. military. And we hold them accountable."
The senator added that China should forgive a large portion of the $1.08 trillion owed to them by the U.S. for the losses our country has suffered because of the virus:
"I will tell you I think we need to look at the fact that China owns over a trillion dollars of our debt. They like investing in us. Why do they like that? Because we are a safe debt for them - a safe place for them to put their money. And knowing that they have made a global pandemic worse than it ever would have been because of their action - they should waive some of our debt. They have caused us a tremendous amount of loss of life, loss of businesses, suffering, inconvenience, shutting down our economy."