(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is among those publicly raising objections to pandemic-related decisions Dr. Anthony Fauci made when he was a top U-S public health official. Ernst questioned Fauci yesterday (Wednesday) during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
Fauci cited his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, as he did with all senators yesterday (Wednesday) to avoid answering questions. Ernst says lawmakers have learned mice from a University of North Carolina lab were sent to a lab in China in 2017 that was researching viruses — and the mice had been implanted with livers and other body parts from aborted human fetuses before they were shipped.
Ernst said “…Taxpayers paid for them to do that.” During her questioning of Fauci, Ernst also brought up a National Institutes of Health lab in Montana that used body parts from aborted fetuses in its research.
Chuck Grassley, Iowa’s other U-S Senator, has also questioned why Fauci allowed U-S taxpayer money to go to a Chinese laboratory doing coronavirus research. Here’s Grassley, speaking on the Senate floor in 2021.
Again, that was Grassley back in 2021. As for yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, the committee’s chairman has scheduled a vote for next Wednesday to hold Fauci in contempt of congress for failing to answer questions.
