Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie will co-sponsor a bill that would cut Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pay to zero until he is replaced as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“The fact that Fauci was ever paid with tax-payer money is an embarrassment to the United States of America,” the Kentucky Republican tweeted in response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the sponsor of the bill.
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Fauci’s 2019 salary of $ 417,608 made him the highest-paid employee in the federal government. The base salary of the president of the United States is $ 400,000 — however, additional nontaxable compensation accounts for expenses, entertainment, and travel are provided by Congress.
Massie has been a frequent critic of the policies implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of “ lying about the efficacy of the vaccine” for those who have already been infected.
Thank you for introducing this bill! The fact that Fauci was ever paid with tax-payer money is an embarrassment to the United States of America. https://t.co/6iazaEofNC
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 2, 2021
“Once you realize the personal ethical standards of policy makers like Dr Fauci and many of those at the CDC lead them to comfortably misrepresent scientific data in order to achieve public policy goals, it is not just your prerogative to question their ‘science,’ it is your duty,” Massie wrote on Twitter after Fauci said it was “possible” people would still be wearing masks in 2022.
Massie, who contracted and recovered from COVID-19 last year, said he would not be taking the vaccine and would rely on the “natural immunity” provided by antibodies. The congressman called the idea of a vaccine passport an “anathema” in a radio interview, comparing it to policies of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
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“The idea that you would have to have papers to travel, the Germans were big on that back before and during World War II, … I think it’s an anathema to what we stand for in this country, that you would have to carry around some sort of card or some kind of papers to prove that you were a first-class citizen and not some sort of second-class citizen.” Massie told radio host Tom Roten. “I guess if you got to have that card to prove you’re a first-class citizen, I’m always going to be a second-class citizen.”
Massie, an electrical engineer by trade, hailed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pandemic response and the governor’s “ban” of Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx from speaking to state government officials in Florida, arguing that “more people should have said, ‘Fauci and Birx, you just stay the heck out of our state. We don’t need you here. We don’t need your lies.'”