US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress
The vote comes after former top US infectious disease official Anthony Fauci repeatedly refused to answer questions about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. The Republican chair, Rand Paul, pushed the referral after Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing, refusing to answer questions about his role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, who is 85 and retired in 2022, invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during the hearing.
The vote comes after a years-long Republican and Trump administration campaign to re-examine the pandemic and hold accountable those who ran the US response. Democrats attempted to postpone the vote, but all were unsuccessful. The vote marks a sharp escalation in the political battle over pandemic-era science and the handling of the COVID-19 response.
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