Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a subpoena for Dr. Anthony Fauci following his refusal to voluntarily testify.
“Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so,” Paul wrote on social media on Monday afternoon. “Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.”
Paul told Semafor that Fauci initially agreed to appear before the committee, but later backed out.
“He’s been slow-walking information to us for six months or more. We’ve been negotiating over the date for several months. He agreed, then he said he wouldn’t. So, I think it’s time that we bring him in,” Paul told the outlet. The senator plans to question Fauci on his “pardon, gain of function research being funded when he said it wasn’t, and the destruction of records. I think there’s a lot to discuss.”
Paul has also dropped documents exposing Fauci’s relationship with the national security community.
On her last day as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released documents exposing how Fauci provided millions of taxpayer dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
“These documents expose Fauci’s direct role in influencing and manipulating IC assessments on COVID-19, and how Fauci lied to Congress in 2024. When under oath, he denied knowledge of or participation in discussions with intelligence officials about viral research,” Gabbard said in a video statement. “We also received testimony from multiple intelligence community whistleblowers, who reported retaliation for challenging the intelligence community’s manipulation of intelligence on the virus’s origins, once again revealing a clear pattern of suppressing dissent, silencing critics, and burying the truth.”
