{"id":804826,"date":"2026-08-06T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:32:09","slug":"live-updates-senate-committee-votes-to-hold-dr-anthony-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804826\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Senate committee votes to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhbywh00033b6rsc1kbqd0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The 8-7 party-line vote Thursday in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee represents a major new milestone in the GOP\u2019s targeting of Dr. Anthony Fauci.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp800053b6rjqvi4q5t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But for committee chair Sen. Rand Paul, it\u2019s far from the first time he\u2019s tried to get Fauci thrown in jail.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp800063b6rzji2pee3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Paul previously pressed the Justice Department to investigate Fauci during the Biden era, to no avail. After President Donald Trump took office, he renewed that request, arguing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025.07.14_Letter-from-Chairman-Paul-to-DOJ___.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a letter<\/a> to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi last July that the government should examine whether Fauci\u2019s preemptive pardon was legitimate.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp800073b6rofi82gyc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNew information has revealed that these pardons were executed via autopen, with no documented confirmation that the President personally reviewed or approved each individual grant of clemency,\u201d Paul wrote, citing reports that then-President Joe Biden had authorized his staff to affix his signature to a slew of clemency actions.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp800083b6rs7yc1y5k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Several prominent Republicans, including Trump, have questioned Biden\u2019s use of the autopen to grant pardons and approve other actions.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp800093b6ro42amac1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But none have formally challenged their authenticity, and the Justice Department never appeared to take any action on Paul\u2019s request.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmshhdbp8000a3b6rbemudjke@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            More recently, even Trump appeared reticent to criticize Biden\u2019s pardons, telling reporters last month that Fauci \u201cwas pardoned by Biden, and I respect that.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 8-7 party-line vote Thursday in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee represents a major new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-804826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}