President Joe Biden has so far failed to comply with the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 — a measure that passed Congress unanimously and he himself signed into law in late March.

The law required Biden to declassify any and all information regarding the connection between a Wuhan-based laboratory and the origins of the novel coronavirus by June 18, a day that has come and gone with no announcement from the White House. A number of Republicans took to social media in the last week to remind Biden that the deadline was approaching and then that it had passed.

[Did Biden deliberately miss the deadline as a way to appease Xi Jinping as Antony Blinken met with him? Or did Biden just never intend to comply with a law Congress passed and he signed? I’m not sure why he’d have an interest in keeping this secret other than Xi appeasement, since all of the issues around the origin of the virus relate to the Trump administration, including the 2017 lifting of the moratorium on gain-of-function genetic manipulation of viruses. — Ed]