Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) proposed legislation Wednesday that would fire Dr. Anthony Fauci from his position as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Davidson unveiled the Fauci Incompetence Requires Early Dismissal (FIRED) Act, which would set a 12-year term limit for appointees for the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The bill would also apply retroactively to directors that served before the bill was enacted, such as Fauci, thereby firing Fauci.
As the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci has served as a White House adviser on COVID-19 under Joe Biden as well as former President Donald Trump.
“Few people have earned their termination more visibly,” Davidson said in a statement, according to Fox News.
“His excessively long tenure is emblematic of Eisenhower’s farewell address caution against scientific-technical elite steering the country for their own ends — at odds with truth and the national interest,” Davidson said.
Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Ralph Norman of South Carolina are among the bill’s co-sponsors.
Booting Fauci has been proposed before. Last month, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia proposed the “Fire Fauci Act” to cut Fauci’s salary to zero.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky explained in a statement on Facebook why he supported that bill.
“The fact that Fauci was ever paid with tax-payer money is an embarrassment to the United States of America. We should #FireFauci,” he wrote.
“The bill also directs the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct an audit of the policy memos and correspondence within the NIAID. The audit will allow us to see what they knew about COVID-19, when they knew it, and how they responded internally to the disease.”
Massie said Fauci should have been booted by former President Donald Trump over the conflicting and faulty advice Fauci gave Trump.
“Trump should have fired Dr. Fauci when Trump had the chance,” Massie told the Cincinnati Enquirer in April.
“I believe that Trump did a lot of great things for the country, but this is one of his mistakes, letting Dr. Fauci provide the imprimatur of science to all of the governors and encouraging all of them to kill our economy,” he said.
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