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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul sounds off on ‘The Story’<\/p>\n
FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky continues to press Dr. Anthony Fauci for answers on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) gain-of-function research funding.<\/p>\n Fox News Digital exclusively obtained Paul\u2019s questions for the record following up on Fauci\u2019s dramatic Jan. 11 testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. <\/p>\n Paul submitted 11 “yes or no” questions for Fauci to answer in a letter to Senate HELP Committee chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Richard Burr, R-N.C, last week. <\/p>\n \n Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to COVID-19 and new emerging variants on Jan. 11, 2022 at Capitol Hill in Washington.\u00a0 “The American people deserve to know how this pandemic started, to know if the NIH funded dangerous gain-of-function research that may have caused this pandemic, and to remove from office anyone, such as Dr. Fauci, who let this happen,” Paul told Fox News Digital in a Monday email. <\/p>\n “In these questions, I am demanding simple \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 answers that aim to get us closer to the truth about the origins of COVID-19,” he continued.<\/p>\n Paul\u2019s questions<\/u> for Fauci probed the doctor on the NIH gain-of-research funding, starting with the grant<\/u> providing funds for “bat SARS-related coronaviruses to EcoHealth Alliance with a subcontract to the Wuhan Institute of Virology” (WIV).<\/p>\n \n Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021. The Kentucky Republican also asked if Fauci was “prepared to retract your previous false testimony before the” Senate HELP Committee if he answered in the affirmative to any of the 11 questions.<\/p>\n “Thank you for your diligence in obtaining answers to members\u2019 questions,” Paul wrote in the Jan. 18 letter. “Please inform my staff when answers to these questions have been received.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/640\/320\/Rand-Paul-Anthony-Fauci.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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