{"id":7024,"date":"2026-08-06T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=7024"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:00:06","slug":"senate-committee-set-to-vote-on-holding-anthony-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=7024","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee set to vote on holding Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Hello and welcome to our live coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-politics\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">US politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><strong>The Senate is expected to vote today on whether to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/anthony-fauci\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Anthony Fauci<\/a> in contempt of Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Fauci, a key adviser to <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> during the Covid-19 pandemic, had <strong>invoked the fifth amendment<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing-covid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">refused to answer questions<\/a> at a high-profile Senate committee hearing on the origins of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The hearing had been called by <strong>Republican senator Rand Paul<\/strong>, who has investigated Fauci for years \u2013 and who Fauci accused of having an \u201cunhinged obsession\u201d with him. Ahead of the hearing, Paul released what he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/27\/anthony-fauci-trump-covid-journal\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">described as Fauci\u2019s \u201cdiary\u201d<\/a>, in which he described Trump as \u201crambling\u201d, \u201ccrazy\u201d, \u201cdesperate\u201d, \u201cbumbling\u201d, \u201cincompetent\u201d, \u201can idiot\u201d, \u201ca true embarrassment\u201d, \u201ctotally nuts\u201d and \u201ctruly an obnoxious adolescent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/anthony-fauci-covid-phone-senate-96ebd8be\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The Wall Street Journal reports<\/a> that <strong>Robert F Kennedy<\/strong>\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services has also provided a copy of Fauci\u2019s phone to the Republican-led Senate panel. Kennedy had written a conspiratorial book attacking Fauci in 2021 that sold more than a million copies \u2013 thanks in part to blurbs from fellow non-scientists Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Alan Dershowitz and Tony Robbins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Scientists and <strong>Democrats<\/strong> have rallied behind Fauci, with a group of 155 scientists signing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/28\/trump-administration-fauci-scientists\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">open letter<\/a> calling for the government to stop the \u201cvilification and harassment of many American scientists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThis is only going to deter other scientific experts from public service,\u201d <strong>Gary Peters<\/strong>, a Democratic senator of Michigan, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. 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