A group of Republican lawmakers is pushing to hold China accountable for its propaganda campaign meant to obfuscate its responsibility for the outbreak and spread of the coronavirus. 
A New York Times report this week criticizes pro-Trump media figures who downplayed the threat of coronavirus. Fair enough. 
Calls are mounting in Congress for the World Health Organization's chief to resign following multiple allegations the international group has aided China's efforts to obfuscate the number of sick and dead in that country from the coronavirus. 
As his colleagues spent January engrossed by impeachment drama, Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) was growing increasingly concerned by the stories coming out of Wuhan. 
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced legislation Thursday to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to America, aiming to reduce a dependency that could seriously limit the U.S. coronavirus response. 
Senior Trump administration officials are working behind the scenes to thwart President Donald Trump's attempt to pull the United States out of a treaty that allows Russia to conduct surveillance operations in the United States, according to U.S. and congressional officials. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) released a new advertisement Wednesday raising alarm about the rise of socialism in the Democratic Party, offering a preview of Republican messaging should Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) emerge as the party's presidential nominee. Lawmakers are calling on the Justice Department to launch a "full-fledged investigation" into China Daily after the Washington Free Beacon found that the propaganda outlet ignored federal law. 
The Trump administration has again renewed key sanctions waivers permitting Iran to conduct sensitive nuclear work, generating anger among GOP hawks who have long called for the administration to quit giving Tehran a pass on its pursuit of an atomic weapon. 
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday called for a targeted travel ban on China to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus to the United States.
