{"id":8687,"date":"2026-08-06T04:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:25","slug":"republicans-may-finally-snare-dr-fauci-in-covids-last-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8687","title":{"rendered":"Republicans may finally snare Dr. Fauci in Covid\u2019s last culture war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            The Covid-19 pandemic was a historic stress test that revealed American politics as too broken to deal with a national crisis.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8675\">FDA approves first mRNA-based flu vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Six years later, a new political storm over Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation\u2019s most prominent health official, suggests those fractures are now even more toxic. And a long-delayed reckoning over the worst public health emergency in 100 years is more distant than ever.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A Republican-led Senate committee is expected to vote to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress on Thursday after he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times during an acrimonious hearing last week.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Committee Chair Sen. Rand Paul accuses Fauci of obstructing his probe into pandemic policies. The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases declined to answer questions, accusing his longtime antagonist from Kentucky of laying a trap to get around a pardon he was granted by then-President Joe Biden.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"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.\" class=\"wp-image-8682\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/92fdeb4b8fded0bdb6d3f79d1d625ded.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>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.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Alex Wroblewski\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Senate subcommittee obtains Fauci\u2019s phone ahead of contempt vote<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>3  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Last week\u2019s hearing was a classic Washington melodrama in which each party zeroes in on a larger-than-life personality to grind ideological axes. And a contempt referral by the committee to the Justice Department would raise pressing legal and constitutional questions over the president\u2019s pardon power.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But more importantly, the new Fauci saga is a clarifying moment regarding Covid-19\u2019s still-potent political legacy heading into the 2026 and 2028 elections. The showdown underscores the shattered consensus on public health between MAGA Republicans and Democrats who accuse their foes of flouting science. And it raises the vital question of whether any lessons have been taken from the vicious political disputes that erupted over Covid-19 mitigation methods between career health officials and the first Trump White House, and between Washington and state and local health and political leaders.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People protest the California state Covid-19 lockdown in Lake Forest, California, on May 2, 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-8683\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/597bc8b542af0d1f54992882f8e21d4c.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/597bc8b542af0d1f54992882f8e21d4c.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/597bc8b542af0d1f54992882f8e21d4c-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>People protest the California state Covid-19 lockdown in Lake Forest, California, on May 2, 2020.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>John Cordes\/AP\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Republicans finally see a way to punish Fauci\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Republican leaders accuse Fauci of presiding over lockdown policies that harmed the economy, public health and children\u2019s education, and of misleading Congress about federally funded research in Wuhan, China, where they contend that a lab leak started the pandemic.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            More broadly, they are seeking to whitewash the erratic and sometimes politically self-serving first-term crisis leadership by Trump that contributed to his loss to Biden in 2020. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for instance, accused Fauci of \u201cmismanaging the Covid pandemic\u201d and said \u201cPresident Trump wanted to end the lockdowns\u201d in a falsehood-filled appearance with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on \u201cState of the Union\u201d Sunday. While the federal government offered guidelines, it didn\u2019t mandate lockdowns. Such decisions were left to states.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Populist Republicans see Fauci as an exemplar of an elite Washington deep state out to suppress personal freedoms. Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno last week demanded Fauci \u201capologize to the people you harmed through your actions,\u201d while Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley called him \u201cthe biggest scammer in American history.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Democrats are welcoming a chance to remind the public of Trump\u2019s Covid-19 failures and \u2014 notwithstanding his first administration\u2019s swift efforts to deploy a vaccine \u2014 to link them to the president\u2019s second-term assault on public health guidelines, vaccine schedules and academic research.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci prepare to leave the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force at the White House, on April 16, 2020.\" class=\"wp-image-8684\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc1487d10b640b8eea353b499b9a71d3.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc1487d10b640b8eea353b499b9a71d3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc1487d10b640b8eea353b499b9a71d3-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci prepare to leave the daily briefing of the coronavirus task force at the White House, on April 16, 2020.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Alex Wong\/Getty Images\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        A shattered legacy\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Fauci\u2019s plight is also something of a Washington tragedy. In nearly four decades at the NIAID, he was the rare official feted by Republicans and Democrats alike. Foreign governments regarded him as the gold standard of global health, and his involvement in President George W. Bush\u2019s PEPFAR global anti-HIV\/AIDS programs helped save millions of lives.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Fauci was an archetypal Washington power player. But at 85, he\u2019s become a symbol of those who cling to power too long and whose reputations end up tarnished. Excerpts of Fauci\u2019s diaries released by the committee showed a vain and hubristic side as he seemed to gloat over his media coverage, fame and interactions with celebrities.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            No one argues that Fauci did everything right. Some of his advice has looked, in retrospect, to be contradictory or not supported by science.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the political heat around the famous doctor may also be an obstacle to something more important: full accountability across the public square over the pandemic, which might improve the federal response to the next emergency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the frightening early days of the Covid-19 panic, officials were making quick decisions without the full knowledge of the properties of the virus as hospitals filled with seriously ill victims. Missteps were inevitable. But sometimes officials gave inconsistent advice or reversed themselves on issues such as masking, resulting in a loss of public confidence.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8671\">Senate subcommittee obtains Fauci\u2019s phone ahead of contempt vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Princeton professor Frances Lee, co-author of the book \u201cIn Covid\u2019s Wake\u201d with her colleague Stephen Macedo, points out that Fauci told CNN in January 2020 that while China had shut down travel to try to contain the outbreak, he couldn\u2019t \u201cimagine shutting down New York or Los Angeles.\u201d He added, \u201cHistorically when you shut things down it doesn\u2019t have a major effect.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Yet weeks later, top health bureaucrats were advising governors to close schools and businesses. \u201cHow did this happen? And not just that we\u2019re shutting down, but the man who had pronounced the Wuhan approach as unlikely to succeed is recommending it,\u201d Lee said in an interview.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The pandemic was such a horrific experience that most people just wanted to move on. But that desire has tempered a reckoning among public and medical officials for in-depth examinations of the period, Lee argued. \u201cLooking back, what did we get right? What did we get wrong? I don\u2019t see that kind of internal reckoning.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            More controversy surrounds pandemic restrictions. Such measures are complex to evaluate, since they depended on the length of lockdowns, the density of spread of the virus, the variants circulating at any one time, and the quality of local health systems. But a full, depoliticized congressional examination of the pandemic would probe the relative success of red states that opened sooner vs. blue ones that stayed shut down longer. Such a study might address questions about the human toll of decisions such shuttering schools, which left lingering educational, mental and emotional damage.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Students listen to speakers during their graduation ceremony at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School in Bradley, Illinois, on May 21, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-8685\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3a2bd806c983d28d5fa3ae237e09998e.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3a2bd806c983d28d5fa3ae237e09998e.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3a2bd806c983d28d5fa3ae237e09998e-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Students listen to speakers during their graduation ceremony at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School in Bradley, Illinois, on May 21, 2021.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Scott Olson\/Getty Images\/File<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Some critics also believe that senior public health officials were so fixated on their mission of battling the virus that they ignored the full spectrum of consequences. They \u2014 and media outlets carrying their messages \u2014 might also have focused more on the pain borne by blue-collar employees, who, unlike office workers, could not log on from home.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But Dr. Ashish Jha, who was White House Covid-19 response coordinator under Biden, told CNN\u2019s Bash on Sunday that Fauci \u201cgave advice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cSome people listened. Some people didn\u2019t,\u201d Jha said, adding that \u201caccountability has to be with our political leaders, not with scientists who are giving advice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The Fauci hearing has also revived the debate about the origins of the virus. At the time, Trump seized on the idea it came from a Chinese laboratory \u2014 apparently to distract from his leadership failures. But the preponderance of academic studies and epidemiological data since then suggests that a zoonotic origin \u2014 meaning a disease occurs naturally in animals and spreads to humans \u2014 is the most likely derivation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, and that initial transmissions were linked to a wet market in Wuhan.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump\u2019s former director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, accused Fauci in June of funding lab research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that caused the virus. But documents she released failed to substantiate the claims, and Fauci denies them. Still, Jha told CNN on Sunday that he had changed his own mind on how the virus started. \u201cBased on information I learned and based on information I have seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak,\u201d Jha said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Since the issue concerns China, an authoritarian state that has refused international demands for more transparency about Covid-19,definitive answers may never emerge. But a congressional process that spent more time in the dispassionate pursuit of answers might offer some clarity.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-8686\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/91b3afd41c639588a86d472b97883937.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/91b3afd41c639588a86d472b97883937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/91b3afd41c639588a86d472b97883937-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 29, 2026.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Allison Robbert\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Will the Fauci storm scare away the leaders of the next national crisis response?\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            No public official should be above answering fordecisions made in positions of public trust. Fauci\u2019s critics see him as imperious and resistant to scrutiny \u2014 even while excusing the failings of Trump, who was often a torrent of misinformation and crank cures during the emergency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But if an official as respected as Fauci is not immune from vicious, personal vilification by national leaders, other, less high-profile public servants might chose another profession and leave America ill-served in the next crisis.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThese attacks upon Dr. Fauci \u2014 it\u2019s not just about him,\u201d Democratic Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey said at the hearing last week. \u201cIt\u2019s sending signals to others \u2026 our scientists, our doctors, our healthcare professionals, our researchers. (It\u2019s) trying to show to them that if you don\u2019t get in line with the politics, that you will also potentially be subject to attacks.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=8669\">Large cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to lettuce now includes cases in 15 states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic was a historic stress test that revealed American politics as too broken to deal with a national crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Republicans may finally snare Dr. Fauci in Covid\u2019s last culture war - 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