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Former White House medical adviser and COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to face a contempt vote in a Senate panel next week after he asserted his Fifth Amendment rights during a hearing about his response to the pandemic. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said it was an...
Read full article →Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci's Senate hearing Wednesday ended up being an hours-long opportunity for Republicans to vent criticisms, arguments and theories on the COVID-19 response as the veteran government scientist adamantly refused to answer any questions. Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly 40 years,...
Read full article →Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Wednesday he would push to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former head of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response invoked his Fifth Amendment right at a hearing on Capitol Hill. “That’s a vote that will...
Read full article →Fox News host Laura Ingraham was on hand to watch Dr. Anthony Fauci answer questions at Wednesday’s Senate hearing, sitting behind him and standing up when Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) asked about people being “shamed” during the COVID-19 pandemic. When Moreno requested people in the audience stand up if they had controversial beliefs or actions...
Read full article →More than 10,000 cases have been reported in Michigan alone, adding fuel to the nation's largest outbreak on record.
Read full article →Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) lobbed an expletive at Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing Wednesday on the origins of and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the former White House chief medical adviser invoked his Fifth Amendment right. Moreno said he decided to run for office soon after learning that a woman...
Read full article →The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would move to end a Biden-era Medicare premium subsidy program, alleging it benefited insurance companies more than enrollees. As a result, Medicare Part D subsidies will expire at the end of the year and no longer be offered in 2027. Medicare Part D is optional prescription drug coverage...
Read full article →Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) accused the GOP chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security of “relitigating the past” with his decision to call Dr. Anthony Fauci before Congress on Wednesday to testify about his oversight of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response. Peters, the ranking member on the committee, questioned Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over...
Read full article →Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, ordered security to remove one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorneys from the committee's hearing room on Wednesday after the longtime infectious disease expert invoked his Fifth Amendment right. The attorney attempted to speak several times, but Paul would not officially recognize...
Read full article →Anthony Fauci, former chief White House medical adviser, invoked his Fifth Amendment right on Wednesday when he appeared before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing held by the committee's chair, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). In his opening remarks, Fauci blasted Paul's "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution." The two have a...
Read full article →Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday that the State Department is set to reinstate funding for a global humanitarian vaccine program after the Trump administration previously paused the program. “It is welcome news that following our recent outreach, the State Department has committed to contributing the full $600 million for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance,” Collins...
Read full article →A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...
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