Tulsi Gabbard unveils evidence of taxpayer-funded biolabs in at least 30 countries, including Ukraine

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released evidence on Friday showing the U.S.-taxpayer-funded biolabs are being run in more than 30 countries around the world, including in places like Ukraine. 

Gabbard said the disclosure of the documents is the culmination of a months-long search throughout U.S. intelligence community files and, in the statement announcing the disclosure, revealed that the new evidence had been intentionally withheld by the Biden administration. Gabbard is in her final weeks in her role as director of national intelligence. She announced she was stepping down last month and that her last day on the job would be June 30.

"Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens and Biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S. funded and supported Biolabs," Gabbard said in her announcment.

All told, there have been more than 120 longstanding taxpayer-funded biolabs around the world, some of which engaged in gain of function research, with minimal and sometimes no oversight. Gabbard said the documents she disclosed were made in accordance with President Trump's 2025 executive order outlawing the taxpayer funding of gain of function research.

"Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth," Gabbard said of these secret biolabs. One of the key fears surrounding the labs, in addition to what is widely believed to have happened in Wuhan with COVID, is that any lab in Ukraine is especially vulnerable given the war between Ukraine and Russia over the last four years.

Gabbard said her office will continue working to uncover where the biolabs exist and what pathogens are being researched in them with the goal of ending gain of function research altogether. Watch her remarks in the video below.