“Regardless of how it started, no origin can excuse the lethal recklessness of Donald Trump’s mismanagement of Covid-19. Nothing,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which recently rebuffed calls from its Republican members to hold hearings on the issue. “Presidents have a responsibility to protect public health regardless of the origin of a public health crisis.” The issue flared again over the past week, when top House Republicans from four committees convened a self-styled hearing on the origins of the virus, during which they accused Democrats of ignoring the issue and fronting for Beijing. Lawmakers also clashed over the Wuhan leak theory during Thursday’s House deliberations on a fiscal 2022 State-Foreign Operations spending bill... The House Intelligence Committee is conducting its own review, but Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told POLITICO that the probe is “less sleuthing on what’s the origin” and more focused on holding the U.S. intelligence community accountable for how it responded to the pandemic. Still, he said he shares his colleagues' fears about fanning the lab leak flames.