Warning to Dr. Anthony Fauci: In January, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will become chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and he's coming after you.
Paul, who has been at odds with Fauci since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, told the New York Post on Wednesday that getting to the bottom of the coronavirus will be one of his top priorities as chairman. Ta.
“I chose to chair this committee over other committees because, for the health of our republic, Congress needs to rise up again to fulfill its constitutional role,” Paul told the newspaper. Because I believe in it.” “This committee's mission of oversight and investigation is critical to Congress reasserting itself.”
“I think we're just now starting to uncover what happened with COVID-19,” he added.
friends in high places
For the past two years, Paul, the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, has been doing his best to find the truth about the origins and science, or lack thereof, of the virus. Wearing masks, social distancing, and reopening schools. But with the power of the committee chairman and the incoming administration he hopes is less involved in Fauci's story, Paul believes he may finally be able to get the full picture.
“We would like to see, if possible, a friendlier administration, and we would hope that there would be friendly people in the[Department of Health and Human Services]and we would hope that they would have friendly people[in the National Agency]as well. “We hope that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be able to help,” he said.
Assuming President-elect Donald Trump's nominees to head these agencies are confirmed, Paul's positive predictions will likely prove prescient. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the author of “The Real Anthony Fauci,” a scathing attack on the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). . President Trump is also said to be strongly considering nominating Jay Bhattacharyya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and author of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration, to head the NIH. Both men have been censored on social media by order of the Biden administration for their views on the coronavirus. It seems safe to assume that the two will actively cooperate with Paul's investigation.
In fact, when it comes to censorship, they and Paul, another victim of coronavirus censorship, agree with each other. According to the paper, Paul “wants to work with social media companies to ensure that Americans can freely discuss such topics without fear of government repression.”
“The idea that the government would proactively tell people not to publish things is scary to me,” he said.
go viral
As for the virus itself, Paul's main focus is on its origins, likely a leak from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and NIH funding for the research behind it. .
“The biggest factor in the coronavirus cover-up is that we've known for years that this dangerous research existed,” he told the Post.
According to LifeSiteNews:
Paul recently told Fox News that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and HHS “refused to provide documentation as to why Wuhan received this research funding and why it was not reviewed as dangerous research.” Ta. We look forward to getting those (documents) because we need to make sure this never happens again. ”
“The cover-up went beyond public statements. Federal agencies and key officials continue to withhold and conceal critical information from both Congress and the public,” Paul said. He said this in his opening remarks at a June Senate hearing on the issue. “This was a deliberate, long-term effort to mislead the committee about certain gain-of-function research experiments that the agency was withholding. That means.”
Fauci looking grumpy
Fauci was one of the main holdouts. As he stated in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in May 2021, the NIH “has never funded, and does not currently fund, gain-of-function research in WIV.” ' he asserted firmly. Paul gave Fauci a chance to retract his statement, but instead Fauci accused Paul of being a liar.
By that October, the situation had improved. In a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak said the NIH has He confessed that he had provided funds to WIV by grant to EcoHealth Alliance.
Paul immediately responded on Twitter: “'I told you so' doesn't even begin to bring it up here.”
The senator's Twitter/X wit is as sharp as ever. On Friday, after a Kennedy parody account posted, “Dear Dr. Fauci, I'm still looking for you!” Paul reposted it with the joke, “I'm sure we'll find him.”
“The next priority is overseeing border security,” the newspaper reported. He is calling on President Trump to immediately deport all illegal aliens convicted of crimes and reinstate policies that require asylum seekers to remain in Mexico until their cases are decided. .
“The ultimate goal over the next two years is to encourage the opening up of the regions that have been most resistant,” Paul told the paper.
“We're just the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “Most of the (documents) we were trying to get in the past were unclassified. You can imagine what's going on in our government and other governments.”
