Republicans led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced legislation Tuesday to remove Dr. Anthony Fauci as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Fire Fauci Act would reduce Fauci’s salary to zero dollars and require the Senate to confirm someone else to fill his position, Greene, R-Ga., said at a news conference.
“You see, Dr. Fauci was not elected by the American people. He was not chosen to guide our economy. He was not chosen to rule over parents and their children’s education. But yet Dr. Fauci very much controlled our lives for the past year,” she said.
Other sponsors of the bill include Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Mary E. Miller, R-Ill.; Buddy Carter, R-Ga.; Bob Good, R-Va.; Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.; Gregory W. Steube, R-Fla.; and Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Fauci was appointed as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and was tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as his chief medical adviser amid the pandemic in December.
Greene cited emails Fauci sent at the beginning of the pandemic in which he did not aggressively pursue the theory that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and downplayed the effectiveness of masks at preventing the spread of the virus.
Fauci has maintained that he believes the virus emerged naturally and has since altered his position on the efficacy of masks.
Earlier this month, Greene sent a letter to Biden demanding an investigation into Fauci and “his potential involvement in the cover-up” of the origins of the virus.
Biden last month asked the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble their efforts” to find the origins of COVID-19 and present a report to him.
Also over the weekend, the G7 called for a second World Health Organization investigation into the origins of COVID-19 after China refused to participate in an initial report.
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Can you extend that to Joe Biden and his entire administration?
IF i had my way, they wouldn’t just get FIRED. THEY WOULD ALL BE JAILED for collusion, conspiracy, treason and corruption in releasing the pandemic on the world..
Everyone who knows this guy from working with him and going to school with him says he is a know-nothing, opportunistic, fool.
He was wrong about the heterosexual spread of HIV, masks, vaccine, the source of China Virus….and he lied about what he knew about the whole scheme.
After all the damage he has done to We The People hanging may be too good for him.
Well perhaps, but I would be more than happy to not only provide the rope, but tie the noose and pull the lever. Just saying…
IMO there’s more satisfaction, in using a guillotine!!!
Fauci, the WHO, the Wuhan Lab and the communist Chinese all in bed together. Thanks for funding the Wuhan Lab Fauci and as a result you killed millions of people and you destroyed economies all over the world. You, Fauci are a felon.
HE damn wel SHOULD be given the title of “Felon!”
Not to change the subject but …
marrick garland should be disbarred for what he said.
BUT you can bet the GOP is too cowardly to call for that to happen!
More to the point, he is guilty of murder, perhaps not premeditated, but murder none the less. Further more, he is not alone.
IF as many of us think, he COLLUDED with the DNC and CCP to release it on the US, then it IS premeditated.
You go Congresswoman Greene. Keep the pressure up on those Lib’s.