What to know about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate testimony:
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, is testifying Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, setting up a showdown with the panel’s chair, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
- Fauci is appearing under subpoena just days after Paul’s office released a trove of diary entries Fauci wrote during his time as a leader in the Trump and Biden administrations’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In the journal entries, Fauci recounts early discussions about the origins of the coronavirus, an issue that lawmakers have investigated and that Paul has accused Fauci of downplaying.
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