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Senate Committee Issues Subpoena to Fauci for COVID Origins Testimony
Sen. Rand Paul subpoenaed Anthony Fauci after the former official did not respond to a prior request. The move follows the senator's claim of new document access under the Trump administration. Paul also questioned a preemptive pardon issued by former President Biden.
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Sen. Rand Paul issued a subpoena for Anthony Fauci's testimony on June 28, 2026, after Fauci did not respond to an earlier panel request, Washington Examiner reported. ” The senator said on Fox News’s Sunday Futures with Maria Bartiromo that his investigation into COVID-19 origins had been blocked under the Biden administration, which refused to provide documents.
He stated that the Trump administration has turned over virtually all requested records. Paul asserted that Fauci funded gain-of-function research that made viruses more lethal, more attachable to human cells, and more infectious. He added that a CIA scientific commission voted 6 to 1 that SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab and that Fauci privately acknowledged early in 2020 the virus likely did not originate at a Wuhan wet market.
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 first identified in late 2019, claimed more than 1.2 million lives in the United States and an estimated more than 7 million worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. ” Paul said Fauci has not faced repercussions for involvement in funding research that led to a pandemic that killed 15 million people.
