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Fauci Faces Contempt Vote Wednesday Following Tense Senate Appearance

A Senate panel appears poised to vote Wednesday on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times before the committee last week.

Fauci repeatedly invoked his right against self-incrimination despite having been granted a sweeping pardon by former President Joe Biden amid allegations that he misled Congress and the public about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became the face of the public health response to the pandemic, was questioned about federal grant money that might have helped fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, a suspected source of the virus, before the outbreak of COVID-19. He has repeatedly denied allegations of funding China-based research on coronavirus and lying about it to Congress.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which hosted Fauci last week, will hold a business meeting on Wednesday. Nothing is on the schedule, but the committee’s chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., posted Monday on X, “This week, HSGAC will vote to hold him in contempt.”

If the committee approves a contempt of Congress citation, it will go to the full Senate floor for a vote. If the Senate approves, the citation could be used in a prosecution by the Justice Department.

In the same X post, Paul said: “Fauci has a sweeping pardon protecting him from prosecution,........

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