Washington – Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined “Your World With Neil Cavuto” on Thursday to discuss the latest coronavirus relief legislation as well as the importance of America leading the world in holding China accountable for the spread of COVID-19. For video of the full interview and transcript excerpts, please see below:

NEIL CAVUTO: A lot of people are getting nervous with now five straight weeks of record unemployment claims. More than 26 million Americans filing for jobless benefits. It could go significantly higher. Are you worried right now that even when we are slowly getting back to work that it’s going to be a slow hall, that it won’t be a v-shaped recovery, that fewer people are going back into restaurants and theaters almost by edict for distance reasons, that it inevitably will be a slower recovery?

REP. LIZ CHENEY: I do think that that’s the case, Neil. I think that we have to be realistic about it. I think also though, we have to remember who is at fault and the people who are at fault here are the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese government. When you look at what they’ve done, what they have unleashed on the world, hundreds of thousands of deaths, the economy globally, here in the United States completely shut down. They lied about this, they caused this virus to be exported. By that I mean, at a time they knew they had human to human contact and human to human transmission in Wuhan, they stopped letting people from Wuhan travel to the rest of China, but they let them travel around the world.

So they exported this virus to the world, they lied about it, they disappeared the physicians who tried to warn the world about it, and they have also threatened to blackmail us. You’ve had Chinese state owned media saying that they will stop the export of medicines that we need right now in the middle of the fight against COVID. That cannot happen. That needs to be a wake-up call for people all across this country.

We cannot be vulnerable to the Chinese government like this. We cannot allow ourselves to be blackmailed. We need to take very specific and clear action to move our supply chains out of China. We need to make sure we are defended and protected. The United States needs to lead the world and lead the free nations of the world in making clear that we will not let the Chinese Communist Party determine the kind of future we are all going to live in. They will be held accountable, they must be held accountable and the United States needs to lead that effort.