The vote came down 8 to 7 on the committee, with the vote being split along party lines.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee has voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, clearing a hurdle before a full vote can take place in the Senate chamber to officially hold him in contempt of Congress.
The vote takes place after Fauci appeared in Congress last week, where he pleaded the Fifth 111 times in response to questions surrounding his response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The vote came down 8 to 7 on the committee, with the vote being split along party lines.
The committee debated on several motions, with multiple Democrat senators attempting to delay the vote to hold Fauci in contempt, with each one from the Democrats failing along party lines votes.
The vote comes after GOP Senator Ron Johnson announced that investigators looking into Fauci’s action during the pandemic have obtained a copy of his government-issued phone that he had during his time leading the response to Covid-19.
“The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s phone from HHS. Hopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week’s hearing,” Johnson said in a post to X on Wednesday.
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