FIRST ON FOX: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been a longtime vocal supporter of a medical research institute in his home state with a long track record of collaborating with a firm labeled by the Pentagon as a 'Chinese military company' and with Chinese officials with controversial ties to the CCP.
may be serving, wittingly or unwittingly, as a global collection mechanism for Chinese government gene databases, providing China with greater raw numbers and diversity of human genome samples as well as access to sensitive personal information about key individuals around the world,' The National Security Commission on AI said in 2022.
As a member of Congress, Walz backed Hormel’s expansion and helped them secure 'over $2M for technology acquisitions,' according to a press release. In 2008, when Walz was touring the Hormel Institute, the Rochester Post Bulletin reported he 'will keep pushing for the institute to receive a $5 million federal earmark in 2009 to help pay for equipment and instruments in its new International Center of Research Technology.