Image: Dr. Anthony Fauci waits for the start of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026. Alex Wroblewski / AFP/Getty Images

NPR reports: “Anthony Fauci declined to answer any questions before a Senate committee focused on the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday morning.

“Although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government, and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci said in front of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Fauci,  the country’s leading infectious disease specialist during the COVID-19 pandemic, was subpoenaed to appear by Kentucky senator and committee chair Rand Paul. He has long sparred with the senator over the origins of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic…”

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