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Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment More Than 100 Times in Bitter Senate Hearing.

Senator Rand Paul said the committee he leads would vote next week on whether to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress.

(MD) Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Photography's Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Sheryl Gay Stolberg covers health policy from Washington.

July 29, 2026.

(MD) Dr. Anthony S. Fauci refused on Wednesday to answer questions from a Senate committee, repeatedly invoking his constitutional right not to incriminate himself before a panel dominated by hostile Republicans who accused him of causing the coronavirus pandemic and insinuated that he enriched himself while Americans died.

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution,” Dr. Fauci repeated more than 100 times during a nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

The hearing was part Washington theater, part political Rorschach test, highlighting deep partisan divisions over Dr. Fauci, who spent nearly 40 years as the government’s top infectious disease expert, advising presidents of both parties and generating bipartisan respect until his efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 turned him into a polarizing figure.

When it ended, Senator Rand Paul, the panel’s chairman, announced that the committee would vote next week on whether to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress, contending that he was not entitled to Fifth Amendment protection. [...] Quote -1

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