Rand Paul's about to get his chance to settle his feud with Anthony Fauci

Sen. Rand Paul's said Anthony Fauci belongs in prison. The Kentucky Republican will get his chance to make the case Wednesday when the former Covid czar is slated to appear under subpoena before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that Paul chairs.

Paul reiterated his objective on X Monday, saying the pardon President Joe Biden gave Fauci -- Biden said to shield him from a vindictive Trump administration prosecution -- would not protect Fauci if he lies to Congress.

Paul's goals go beyond incriminating Fauci. He also wants to show that Fauci funded risky virus research in China. 'The goal is the truth,' Paul told reporters on Monday about Fauci. 'I'd like to hear him say he's sorry.'

'They got a longstanding vendetta against Fauci. He seems to be almost obsessed,' Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member, said of Paul on Monday.

The article references the April 2026 federal grand jury indictment of Fauci's former senior adviser David Morens; notes the origin debate has 'no scientific consensus on whether it was a lab accident or whether an animal infected a human' and that 'most Republicans and President Donald Trump have embraced the lab leak theory'; notes the 'Risky Research Review Act' that would shift NIH funding decisions to a new board; and the White House's Tuesday release of a 'new policy stopping high-risk biological research.'