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Dr. Anthony Fauci is planning to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term.
A new report from Politico reveals that Fauci, the Chief Medical Officer to the President of the United States, said he will retire by the end of Biden’s term following more than five decades of federal service under seven different presidential administrations.
“The 81-year-old has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, Reuters reported. He became the face of the American government’s policies regarding efforts to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Fauci has worked for over 50 years in the American public health sector, advising every president since Reagan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci was a leading figure on both Trump and Biden’s coronavirus response teams,” Fox News reported.
In his new interview with Politico Fauci spoke about the coronavirus and what’s in store for his future.
“We’re in a pattern now. If somebody says, ‘You’ll leave when we don’t have Covid anymore,’ then I will be 105. I think we’re going to be living with this,” he said. “What we have right now, I think we’re almost at a steady state.”
Fauci also responded to calls from Republicans in Congress to investigate him.
“They’re going to try and come after me, anyway. I mean, probably less so if I’m not in the job,” Fauci said. “I don’t make that a consideration in my career decision.”
“I don’t think they can say anything about the science,” he added. “If that’s what you want to investigate, be my guest. My telling somebody that it’s important to follow fundamental good public health practices – what are you going to investigate about that?”
The news comes as Republicans have been vowing investigations into Fauci if they win back control of the U.S. House in November’s midterm elections.
Indiana GOP Sen. Mike Braun says “we need to have a plan” for when Republicans win back majorities in Congress in November’s midterm elections.
During an interview on Newsmax’s “Eric Bolling: The Balance,” Braun also endorsed the idea of House Republicans launching an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“We’re going to win the House back. I think the Senate is now in play. We’ve talked about it before. What do we do with it when we get it back?” Braun asked.
“Are we going to just lay back, baseline this craziness as something we accept?” he continued. “Are we going to undo it? And then what are we going to put out there as a game plan if we want to win the presidency back in 2024?”
“We’ll put a tourniquet on crazy legislation by winning the House. We’ll get back in the appointment business of only conservative judges and cabinet members. But we don’t need to really look too far,” he said. “Go back to pre-COVID. Look at what was working under (Donald) Trump. Get back to it.”
Saying that the “tables turn in January of 2023,” Braun emphasized the need for Republicans to be “as aggressive as what they (Democrats) have been from the moment Trump got elected.”
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan recently vowed that Republicans would focus on three investigations if they win back the House in the midterms.
“The top three are the DOJ (Department of Justice), what they’re doing to parents,” Jordan said in a podcast interview at the time. “Priority No. 2, and equally as important, is the chaos that is now our southern border and has been that way for a year ever since Biden took office.
“We will do a joint investigation with the Oversight Committee … in conjunction with Sen. (Rand) Paul and Sen. (Ron) Johnson on the origins of this (COVID-19), (Dr. Anthony) Fauci, and all the other things,” he added of his third priority.
Braun was asked about Jordan’s comments and seemed to agree.
“A lot of what I’m going to be pushing for is stuff that we generally aren’t comfortable with doing, but it better start with some of the investigations. It better start in January, and then we need to have a plan out there that counters a lot of the stuff that’s been put in place in just a year and a half of damage with Biden at the helm.”
Jordan said Republicans will “uncover” what Fauci knew about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jordan argued recently released emails prove there’s a “need to investigate Fauci.”
“If the American people put us back in charge, we are definitely going to do this,” Jordan said, adding that his colleagues would push for a congressional investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.
