US Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio arrives ahead of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee business meeting to consider pending calendar business on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2026. The committee is scheduled to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in contempt of Congress. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

US Senator Bernie Moreno (C), Republican of Ohio speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee business meeting to consider pending calendar business on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2026. The committee is scheduled to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in contempt of Congress. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 06: Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (L) listens as ranking member Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) speaks during a business meeting with the Senate Homeland Security And Government Affairs Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on August 06, 2026 in Washington, DC. The committee convened to vote on several measures including a contempt resolution against former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who invoked the Fifth Amendment numerous times during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). The committee voted along party lines to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

(FILES) Dr. Anthony Fauci is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026. A Republican-led US Senate committee on August 6 voted to hold the country's former top infectious diseases official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, in an escalation of efforts to blame him for potential Covid-19 pandemic missteps. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) US President Donald Trump, flanked by Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on March 25, 2020, in Washington, DC. A Republican-led US Senate panel on August 6, 2026 voted to hold the country's former top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, in an escalation of efforts to blame him for potential pandemic missteps. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 13, 2020, in Washington, DC. A Republican-led US Senate panel on August 6, 2026 voted to hold the country's former top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, in an escalation of efforts to blame him for potential pandemic missteps. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

A clerk (foreground) tallies votes during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee business meeting to consider pending calendar business on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2026. A Republican-led US Senate panel on Thursday voted to hold the country's former top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, in an escalation of efforts to blame him for potential pandemic missteps. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)