(Joni Ernst — KIWA Staff Photo)
Washington, D.C. (RI) — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is among the lawmakers publicly raising objections to pandemic-related decisions made by Dr. Anthony Fauci when he served as a top U.S. public-health official.
Ernst questioned Fauci Wednesday during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill.
Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination — a response he used with all senators during the hearing. Ernst says lawmakers have learned that mice from a University of North Carolina lab were sent to a lab in China in 2017 that was researching viruses, and that the mice had been implanted with livers and other body parts from aborted human fetuses before being shipped.
Ernst also cited research at a National Institutes of Health lab in Montana that used body parts from aborted fetuses.
Chuck Grassley, Iowa’s other U.S. Senator, has also questioned Fauci’s acceptance of U.S. taxpayer money going to a Chinese laboratory conducting coronavirus research. Here’s Grassley speaking on the Senate floor in 2021.
As for Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, the committee chairman has scheduled a vote for next Wednesday on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for failing to answer questions.
