Comer Questions If Chinese Donors Backed Salaries Paid to Officials With Biden Administration-in-Waiting

Millions of dollars donated by anonymous Chinese sources to the Penn Biden Center in Washington may have covered paychecks for multiple officials working at the think tank as part of a Biden administration-in-waiting, according to House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
“The Penn Biden Center appears to have acted as a foreign-sponsored source of income for much of a Biden administration in-waiting,” Comer said in a Jan. 18 letter to Mary Elizabeth Gill, the University of Pennsylvania’s president. “Between 2017 and 2019, UPenn paid President Biden more than $900,000, and the university employed at least 10 people at the Penn Biden Center who later became senior Biden administration officials.”…}