{"id":1619118,"date":"2022-08-22T14:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619118"},"modified":"2022-08-22T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:53:59","slug":"so-long-fauci-stepping-down-before-red-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/so-long-fauci-stepping-down-before-red-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Fauci \u2014 Stepping Down Before Red Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fso-long-fauci-stepping-down-before-red-wave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619118&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2418118\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2418118\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2418118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/psaki.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 27: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listens during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed the H.R. 748, the CARES Act on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers hope will battle the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/psaki.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/psaki-315x210-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/psaki-656x437-1.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/psaki-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2418118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MARCH 27: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listens during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed the H.R. 748, the CARES Act on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers hope will battle the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>Chanel Rion, OAN Chief White House Correspondent<br \/>UPDATED 11:19 AM PT \u2013 Monday, August 22, 2022<\/h5>\n<p><i><span>The timing of Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s planned resignation in December has raised questions around plans to investigate Fauci under a Republican congress in the fall.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Having served 54 years in government \u2013 38 of those as Director of\u00a0National Institute of Health \u2013 Biden\u2019s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Monday he would he resigning from his post in December.<\/p>\n<p>The 81 year old stated he would be pursuing the \u201cnext chapter\u201d in his career.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden chimed in with a laudatory statement confirming Fauci\u2019s resignation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs he leaves his position in the U.S. government, I know the American people and the entire world will continue to benefit from Dr. Fauci\u2019s expertise in whatever he does next. Whether you\u2019ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans\u2019 lives with his work,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Fauci\u2019s announcement has been tied by his critics to fears over a red wave midterm that would deliver to Congress an army of Republicans whose constituents have long called for an investigation into Dr. Fauci\u2019s conduct and handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has been accused of lying before Congress when he denied providing funding to the Wuhan Lab in China. Republican calls to investigate Fauci have fallen in n deaf ears in the Democrat controlled Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But Fauci\u2019s chief congressional nemesis, Kentucky\u2019s Republican Senator Rand Paul assured Fauci\u2019s resignation in December would have little effect on efforts to investigate him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci\u2019s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1561751391332438020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1561751391332438020?s=20&amp;t=HMt3e_hMBspAhb_bVKNfBg\">Fauci\u2019s resignation will not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He will be asked to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the lab leak.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Fauci leaves his post in the government as one of the highest paid employees in the US government with a salary of roughly over $400,000 a year by some estimates. A salary that surpasses that of the President, four-star generals, and almost 5 million of his colleagues in government.<\/p>\n<p>And with Fauci\u2019s resignation in December, he is expected to receive a pension exceeding $350,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MARCH 27: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci listens during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed the H.R. 748, the CARES Act on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}