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Rand Paul subpoenas Fauci for testimony in COVID origin probe
Paul is expected to question Fauci on whether he lied to Congress during the pandemic about whether his office had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul issued a subpoena Monday to force former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci to testify in front of his panel after the Biden administration official declined to do so voluntarily.
The senator claimed Fauci previously agreed to testify in front of the panel, but former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on her last day in office last week declassified a several-hundred-page agency report on Fauci related to when he was NIAID director, the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing, unresolved issue of the origin of the deadly virus.
Paul said the new hearing will take place in a public forum next month.
"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 on X. "Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month."
Paul is expected to question Fauci on whether he lied to Congress during the pandemic about whether his office had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Despite the evidence of a potential lab leak sickening workers at the Wuhan lab, Fauci has continued to double down on his claim that the COVID-19 virus had emerged naturally from a wet-market in the same areas as the lab, not a leak from the lab itself.
No date for the new hearing has been released.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rand-paul-subpoenas-fauci-testimony-covid-origin-probe
“The Deep State Firings Have Begun” – BREAKING: Bill Pulte Starts Slashing Jobs at Office of Director of National Intelligence
Bill Pulte has begun firing Deep State intel officials just days into his role as Acting DNI.
“The Deep State firings have begun” a source told CNN on Monday.
It is unclear how many people have been fired.
It was previously reported that Trump wanted to reduce the size of the federal intel agencies.
Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte showed up to work a day early last Thursday and asked for a list of all employees as he decided whom to fire.
According to CNN, Pulte met with lawyers last Thursday evening.
Pulte officially began his job as Acting DNI last Friday.
Earlier this month, President Trump announced his nomination of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to serve as Director of National Intelligence.
However, Trump postponed Clayton’s confirmation until the Senators confirm his replacement for US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The delay in Clayton’s confirmation will allow Pulte to carry out the mass firings.
Three Republican Senators earlier this month joined the Democrats and voted to block Bill Pulte from serving as the Acting Director of National Intelligence.
RINO Senators Cassidy, Collins and Murkowski voted for a Democrat sponsored amendment that would bar a Senate-confirmed head of another department from serving as Acting DNI.
Senator Mark Warner introduced the amendment to block Pulte from serving as Acting DNI.
The amendment failed in a 49-49 vote.
https://x.com/KristenhCNN/status/2069169159011709092
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/deep-state-firings-have-begun-breaking-bill-pulte/