GOP Must Hold ‘Radical’ Health Officials Like Fauci ‘Accountable’: Republican Study Committee

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pauses during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 26, 2021. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

In a May 24 policy memo, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) argued that if Republicans take back Congress in November 2022, holding “radical” public health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci accountable must be a “major oversight priority” for the party.

Once a figure trusted by Republicans and Democrats alike, Republicans have increasingly balked at Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.