Dr Anthony Fauci faced an extraordinary day of intense public and political scrutiny on Thursday as the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8–5 along party lines to recommend holding him in contempt of Congress.
The high-stakes legislative showdown, spearheaded by Senator Rand Paul, unfolded after the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly declined to answer questions regarding pandemic-era decisions, opting to invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination 111 times.
