The Senate has subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci following the release of documents that critics said showed the former head of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provided misleading testimony to lawmakers.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on June 22 that he asked Fauci to voluntarily testify to the panel he chairs, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but Fauci declined.
“Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month,” Paul said on X.
Fauci, 85, did not return a request for comment.
Fauci, the head of the NIAID from 1984 to 2022, told lawmakers while testifying in 2024 that he did not talk about viral research related to COVID-19 with intelligence officials. He said at the time he was briefed by intelligence officials “about possibilities of there being activities going on in different laboratories.”…