WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 23, 2026 - Senator Rand Paul (Kent.) on Monday subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify publicly next month before the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) Senate, after Fauci backed out of a voluntary appearance.
Fauci will have to testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which Paul chairs. "Today, I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month," Paul wrote in a post on X on Monday.
An inside source with knowledge of Paul's plans told The Defender on condition of anonymity that Fauci is expected to testify under oath about "everything" - from his involvement in funding gain-of-function research that may have created COVID-19 to the subsequent cover-up of a possible lab leak.
In an interview with Semafor, Paul said he will also ask Fauci about the destruction of federal records and about the preemptive pardon fascist pretender Joe Biden granted him last year. The pardon shields Fauci from federal prosecution for his official acts dating back to 2014, though the pardon may be invalidated because Biden did not sign it; it was signed by some other official using an autopen.
"He's been slow-walking information to us for six months or more," Paul told Semafor. "We've been negotiating over the date for several months. He agreed, then he said he wouldn't. I think it's time that we bring him in. I think there's a lot to discuss."
Speaking to CNBC's Squawk Box today, Paul credited FPSA Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for aiding Paul's COVID-19 origins investigation.
"We've gotten more evidence over the last year. From the Biden (regime), they revealed nothing. From the (President Donald J.) Trump (regime), particularly with Secretary Kennedy, we've gotten a lot of information," Paul said.
Paul did not formally announce the date when Fauci is scheduled to testify, but the hearing has reportedly been set for July 29. Paul told CNBC, though Fauci may challenge the subpoena in court.
In several follow-up posts on X, Paul elaborated on his allegations that Fauci oversaw risky gain-of-function research, which increases the transmissibility or virulence of viruses, at FPSA biolabs and China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Fauci's subpoena comes just days after outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents indicating that Fauci funded gain-of-function research that led to the development and subsequent leak of COVID-19 - and that he sought to suppress evidence of both the funding and the lab leak.
"Anthony Fauci didn't just fund dangerous research at the Wuhan lab. He personally shaped what the intelligence community told the (Amerikan) people about COVID's origins," Paul wrote on X.
Legal experts and commentators have suggested that Biden's preemptive pardon may not fully protect Fauci during his congressional testimony next month.
Fauci can be indicted if he fails to be honest about his former lies, for which he needed a pardon; Fauci may otherwise face perjury charges.
During a closed-door interview with the FPSA House of Representatives in 2024, Fauci claimed more than 100 times that he did not recall details about the federal pandemic response and COVID-19's origins.
Paul has pushed for the FPSA Department of Justice (DoJ) to indict Fauci on perjury charges for lying to Congress during testimony in May 2021 by claiming that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) never funded gain-of-function research.
The five-year statute of limitations for indicting Fauci for his May 2021 testimony expired last month.
However, Fauci provided similar testimony in July 2021, telling the Senate that NIAID did not fund gain-of-function research, that research involving bat coronaviruses did not fit the definition of such research and that he hadn't previously lied to Congress. The statute of limitations for that testimony expires next month.
Others have suggested Fauci may face perjury charges as late as 2029, for congressional testimony in 2024 when he claimed he never conducted official National Institutes of Health (NIH) business using his personal email account.
In April, a grand jury indicated Dr. David Morens, formerly a top aide to Fauci at NIAID for attempting to shield information about COVID-19's origins from potential Freedom of Information Act review by illegally using his personal email account.
Last week, Paul told The National News Desk that the pardon Biden granted Fauci is likely unconstitutional and "should be challenged in court."
"How do you pardon someone in advance of a charge?" Paul asked. "A court could look at this and say that's way too broad."