GOP Planning Fauci Probe After 2022 Midterms
Several Republican lawmakers signaled they are planning to target White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci in investigations if the GOP secures at least one chamber in the 2022 midterms.
“One way or another, if we are in the majority, we will subpoena his records and he will testify in the Senate under oath,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who could become the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee chairman if Republicans win, told The Hill in a Monday report.
After Fauci clarified comments last week that won’t retire soon, Paul wrote on Twitter that Fauci will likely have to testify under oath in Congress.
“I look forward to ascertaining Fauci’s involvement in the cover-up of the lab origins of COVID — Under Oath!” he wrote in response on July 19 to Fauci’s statement that he is “not going to retire.”
“If Republicans take charge of the House or the Senate or both, he will have to testify under oath because a million Americans died,” Paul told Fox News several days ago. “And we want to know about was there a cover-up in trying to suppress any link to the lab in China? I do fully believe this virus … leaked from the lab.”
As he mulled stepping down from his position in a Politico interview last week, Fauci noted that he will likely face investigations in 2022.
“I don’t make that a consideration in my career decision,” he said of the possible investigations, adding that he will defend his record of recommending masking, lockdowns, and vaccines. “My telling somebody that it’s important to follow fundamental good public health practices … what are you going to investigate about that?” he said.
Paul and Fauci have sparred multiple times during public congressional panels, namely on whether Fauci’s agency provided funding to third-party groups
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