Several Republican lawmakers, eager to blame a U.S. government official for the response to the coronavirus pandemic, introduced a bill Tuesday to fire Anthony Fauci, the face of American efforts to combat COVID-19.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene led a handful of colleagues in announcing the so-called Fire Fauci Act, which would reduce the famed infectious disease expert’s government salary to zero and require the Senate to confirm someone to fill his position.
Fauci, who has advised seven U.S. presidents, had become a trusted figure in the government’s pandemic response, beginning with his work during Donald Trump’s administration.
But conservatives have taken aim at his performance, accusing him of misleading Americans and providing contradictory advice on masks and social distancing. He has also been accused of obscuring China’s role in the rise of the coronavirus, and particularly theories that it arose from a lab in Wuhan province.
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