Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife are worth a whopping $10.4 million, at least, despite both being career bureaucrats.
The figures were shared by Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican and physician who tangled with Fauci last week on Capitol Hill. His financials were released just days after Fauci was heard calling Marshall a “moron” on a hot mic.
“BREAKING! I obtained Dr. Fauci’s previously unpublished financial disclosures,” Marshall tweeted. “Dr. Fauci was completely dishonest about his disclosures being readily accessible to the public which is why I am releasing them now.”
It’s long been known that, with a reported salary of $434,312, Fauci is the highest-paid government worker in America, including President Joe Biden. Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, who is the National Institutes of Health’s chief bioethicist, earned more than $234,000 in 2020.
But the pandemic power couple doesn’t just bring home hefty paychecks — Fauci and Grady invest well. In 2020, they brought in nearly $800,000 in unrealized gains in investment accounts.
The majority of Fauci’s wealth appears to be held in Charles Schwab investment accounts and mutual funds — $8.3 million is in Fauci’s name, while another $1.1 million falls under that of his wife. Fauci’s trust account was valued at $5.295 million at the end of 2020, his defined benefit plan was valued at $2.4 million, and his contributory individual retirement account totaled $638,519.
The disclosures released by Marshall cover 2019-20 and showed Fauci serves on the board of McGraw Hill Education, with royalties there totaling between $100,001 to $1 million. Forbes reported Fauci edits Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine textbook and that he received $100,000 as editor in 2020.
When Marshall demanded Fauci disclose his finances during testimony last week, Fauci insisted that they were already public records. However, they were not accessible to the public online, and a previous version of the financial disclosures released by NIH was heavily redacted.
Marshall sent Fauci a letter the next day, writing, “As a member of the committee directly responsible for the oversight of NIAID, I expect a direct, transparent, and honest answer. Instead I was met with a personal insult, deflection, and counter question as to why financial disclosures are important.”
The Kansas Republican then blasted Fauci on Friday after the NIH provided the financial disclosures.
“At the end of the day, Dr. Fauci must be held accountable to all Americans who have been suing and requesting for this information but don’t have the power of a Senate office to ask for it,” Marshall said. “For these reasons, I will be introducing the FAUCI Act so financial disclosures like these are made public and are easily accessible online to every American.”
If the 81-year-old Fauci ever decides to retire, he is in line for a $350,000 pension, the highest ever for a government employee.
