{"id":1619317,"date":"2022-08-22T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619317"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:27:32","slug":"house-republicans-promise-to-still-investigate-fauci-after-december-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-promise-to-still-investigate-fauci-after-december-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Promise To Still Investigate Fauci After December Retirement"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-promise-to-still-investigate-fauci-after-december-retirement%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=1619317&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1413923335-scaled-e1661199130755.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republicans on the House Oversight Committee promised Monday to press onward with investigations into Dr. Anthony Fauci despite his intention to retire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci, who has served as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 38 years and as top medical adviser to President Joe Biden for the past two, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/22\/anthony-fauci-stepping-down-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced Monday<\/a> he will retire from both of those positions in December to pursue the \u201cnext chapter\u201d in his career. Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, ranking member of the Oversight Committee, responded with a blistering statement assuring the public that Fauci will not be able to \u201cshield\u201d himself from investigation by retiring.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A) Top GOPer on Oversight Cmte Comer: Retirement can\u2019t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight. Emails obtained by Oversight Committee Republicans reveal what Dr. Fauci said publicly about COVID origins was very different than what was said privately.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1561753756399816704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRetirement can\u2019t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight. Emails obtained by Oversight Committee Republicans reveal what Dr. Fauci said publicly about COVID origins was very different than what was said privately,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-retirement-cant-shield-dr-fauci-from-congressional-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comer said<\/a>. \u201cDr. Fauci was warned by top scientists early on that the virus looked genetically manipulated and likely leaked from the Wuhan lab. Despite these facts, Dr. Fauci dismissed these ideas in public as conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know if Dr. Fauci concealed anything from government officials in order to shield the NIH\u2019s cozy relationship with EcoHealth Alliance,\u201d he continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/10\/fauci-jokes-created-covid-19-laughs-gain-of-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Dr. Fauci Jokes That He Created COVID-19, Laughs About Gain-Of-Function Research)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/gop-senators-review-gain-of-function-research-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawmakers<\/a> have pledged to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/18\/anthony-fauci-cdc-overhaul-covid-rochelle-walensky-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauci\u2019s<\/a> role in suppressing the lab leak theory, which posits that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci\u2019s agency, NIAID, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/01\/peter-daszak-anthony-fauci-national-institutes-of-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">funded<\/a> various gain-of-function research projects at the Wuhan lab in the years leading up to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has denied funding gain-of-function research, which involves making pathogens more dangerous to humans via genetic modifications. Rutgers University microbiologist Dr. Richard Ebright <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/anthony-fauci-gain-of-function-research-wuhan-covid-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testified<\/a> earlier this month that the research Fauci funded does amount to gain-of-function. Fauci had previously defended this kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/anthony-fauci-gain-of-function-research-covid-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research<\/a>, claiming that it was important for preventing global pandemics and developing treatments and vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on the House Oversight Committee promised Monday to press onward with investigations into Dr. Anthony Fauci despite his intention to retire at the end of this year.Fauci, who has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-1619317","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\/1619317","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619317\/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=1619317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}