Sen. Joni Ernst
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62 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Sen. Joni Ernst’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing today.
Dr. Fauci, Americans haven't forgotten the tragic stories of people who lost loved ones during COVID and those that were denied a chance to say goodbye.
to their family members that were in hospitals or residing in nursing homes because of the COVID-19 protocols.
Americans haven't forgotten the mandates, the adverse reactions to vaccines, the government misinformation, social media censorship, hotlines to tattle on their neighbors, the forced school closures.
the tragic rise in suicides or those businesses that were forced to close during lockdowns.
Americans haven't forgotten the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by taxpayers for COVID relief stolen by fraudsters
who bought Royals, excuse me, Rolls Royces and yachts.
These were taxpayer dollars.
Americans have lost trust in science and government after the COVID response.
Trust which will be incredibly difficult for us to gain back.
Dr. Fauci, you said that the science was evolving and that your recommendations evolved with it.
But Americans remember you as the public face of the coronavirus response.
As one of the nation's most trusted voices, you urged policies you said were absolutely necessary, even when those policies came at an enormous human and economic cost.
And Americans deserve answers about reports that you may have worked with others to pressure the president into adopting the slow the spread strategy and why you later sought an unconditional pardon for crimes you may have committed dating back to 2014.
Dr. Fauci, in 2022, you had a taxpayer-funded salary of $480,000 a year.
You were, in fact, the highest-paid federal employee in the entire federal government, even making more than the NIH director and the president of the United States.
According to now public documents, that was due in large part to your work on biodefense.
Unreported is how NIAID spent over $1 billion from 2009 to 2026 in biodefense and influenza federal contracts and subcontracts.
The office uncovered records on USAspending.gov that show from 2015 to 2020, NIAID paid out $515,418 in subcontracts to Harbin Veterinary Institute in Harbin, China, including $100,000 a few days after it opened a BSL-4 biolab in 2018.
That very same institute was criticized for doing gain of function bird flu research in 2013.
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