A key COVID-19 scandal insider is reneging on his previous agreement to answer questions for Congress, so U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is delivering a subpoena to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci, formerly the chief of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease, was a key policy-decider for Joe Biden during the pandemic created by the China virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab and circled the globe killing millions.
There even now are reports that tens of thousands also died because of the shots mandated by the government and corporations during that time frame.
Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so.
Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee,…
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 22, 2026
Fauci, who now is accused of funding bat virus work in China that made viruses more threatening, and denying he did that, also was the voice of “masks-for-everyone” and “social-distancing is a solution” schemes during the pandemic, neither of which was an effective help.
“Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so,” Paul said. “Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.”

A report in the Washington Examiner said, “The development comes as Fauci has attracted sweeping scrutiny for how he handled COVID-19 during the Biden administration, when he was the top medical adviser to then-President Joe Biden and pushed for mandatory vaccinations, masks, and social distancing. Fauci has particularly attracted criticism from Paul and others due to accusations that he could be to blame for the origins of COVID-19. Intelligence officials released hundreds of documents last week indicating Fauci authorized gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in a Chinese lab and then used his role as adviser to intelligence agencies to hide the information from U.S. investigators amid concerns that the research triggered the pandemic.”
Tulsi Gabbard, the recently resigned director of national Intelligence, confirmed, “The COVID pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain for millions of our fellow Americans and countless people around the world. Now, after years of lies and censorship and cover-ups, the American people deserve transparency, truth, and accountability.”
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic already has delivered a 500-plus page report ruling that COVID-19 was likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, where U.S. researchers were working on bat coronavirus projects funded by U.S. grants.
The report noted, “The committee accused the lab of leaking the virus after using controversial gain-of-function research funded in part by the NIAID, which was led at the time by Fauci.”
Fauci claimed, during a 2021 Senate hearing, the Wuhan experiments didn’t meet the definition of gain-of-function research.
And he schemed with others to push the “COVID is from nature” messaging, which largely has been debunked.
Biden pre-emptively “pardoned” Fauci for “any offense” just before he left office, but reports confirm the pardon was signed by autopen, and senators have suggested that action be challenged in court.

Paul has said, “If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal. Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.”
Bob Unruh
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