Rand Paul lambasts Fauci for getting ‘handled like a president’ with taxpayer-funded safety

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., expressed outrage over new revelations that recently-retired ex-NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci is aware of a taxpayer-reimbursed safety element.

Paperwork obtained by “Jesse Watters Primetime” from the US Marshals Service by means of a request described how the marshals took over that duty from the Division of Well being & Human Providers initially of 2023.

Paul despatched a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in June requesting extra particulars about Fauci’s present employment standing and particular taxpayer-funded advantages.

On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” host Jesse Watters stated a supply’s tip led to a FOIA request to the US Marshals that exposed the safety element for Fauci.

Watters reported the paperwork additionally acknowledged Fauci’s perks embody limousine transportation.

Paul stated he additionally was informed Fauci nonetheless has a element, and that he questioned HHS about it.

“HHS really got here again to us and stated they haven’t been paying for it since January. However then we found that Fox did a Freedom of Info Act and a decide pressured them to say that, effectively, whereas HHS wasn’t straight funding it, the US Marshals have been funding it,” he stated.

Paul stated the federal officers informed him they weren’t straight paying for it, however that, within the senator’s phrases, “any individual else is doing it after which we’re reimbursing them.”

“So it’s a horrible instance of the government lying to its representatives and to the folks. But in addition, why is a retired man, the one retired official I do know of that will get this type of therapy is a former president,” Paul added.

“So I don’t know why this bureaucrat nonetheless has a limo driver safety element.”

Paul questioned aloud if Fauci additionally will get professional bono authorized illustration in retirement as effectively, quipping the physician may have it someday.

The senator stated Fauci’s wealth elevated 30% through the pandemic, and that he ought to be capable of afford his personal safety with out expending taxpayer funds.

By the top of his 54-year profession within the paperwork, Fauci rose to change into the highest-paid federal official. 

The doctor and the senator additionally typically sparred whereas he was at NIAID, with Paul as soon as asking if he wished to revise previous testimony to Congress based mostly on new revelations on the time, whereas Fauci notably as soon as declared the Kentuckian – who’s a health care provider of ophthalmology – had “no concept what he was speaking about” when it got here to his medical evaluation of the coronavirus.

Fauci has since been changed at NIAID in an appearing capability by Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, an immunologist and father of Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass.

Fox Information’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.