(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Joni Ernst and other Republicans on a Senate panel have voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of congress for refusing to answer questions about pandemic-related decisions he made. Ernst questioned Fauci last week during his appearance at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
President Biden issued a pardon for Fauci, who was the chief medical advisor to President Trump when the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States. During last week’s hearing, Ernst questioned Fauci’s decision to finance Chinese research into coronaviruses and to allow a North Carolina lab to implant aborted body parts in mice that were shipped to a lab in China.
Fauci cited his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and did not answer the committee’s questions last week.
Today (Thursday), the senator who leads the committee has forwarded the panel’s contempt finding to the U-S Attorney’s Office in D-C and is asking for the Justice Department to investigate Fauci’s actions.
