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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2316 

To reduce the salary of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy 

and Infectious Diseases, to provide for an audit of the correspondence, 

financial statements, and policy memoranda within the Office of the 

Director during the COVID–19 outbreak, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2021 

Mrs. GREENE of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To reduce the salary of the Director of the National Institute 

of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to provide for an 

audit of the correspondence, financial statements, and 

policy memoranda within the Office of the Director during the COVID–19 outbreak, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fire Fauci Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2 FINDINGS. 

6 Congress finds the following: 


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1 (1) The Director of the National Institute of 

2 Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. An3 thony Fauci, M.D., earned $434,312 in 2020. 

4 (2) Dr. Fauci is not only the highest paid doc5 tor in the Federal Government, but the highest paid 

6 of any of the 4,000,000 Federal employees, includ7 ing the President. 

8 (3) Part IV of the Executive Schedule generally 

9 caps government salaries at $172,500, but Dr. 

10 Fauci’s salary is much higher due to an exception 

11 put in place to make Federal salaries for doctors 

12 and scientists more competitive with the private sec13 tor. 

14 (4) The role of the Director of the NIAID is to 

15 ‘‘provide scientific leadership, policy guidance, and 

16 overall operational and administrative coordination 

17 for the Institute’’. 

18 (5) NIAID is funded by American taxpayer dol19 lars and, as part of the National Institutes of 

20 Health, seeks to apply scientific knowledge to ‘‘en21 hance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and 

22 disability’’. 

23 (6) Dr. Anthony Fauci has continually failed to 

24 provide Americans with accurate information about 


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1 the COVID–19 pandemic and has shown distrust in 

2 the American private sector and American ingenuity. 

3 (7) In March 2020, Dr. Fauci told Americans 

4 not to wear masks, noting: ‘‘There’s no reason to be 

5 walking around with a mask. When you are in the 

6 middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make 

7 people feel a little bit better and it might even block 

8 a droplet, but it is not providing the perfect protec9 tion that people think that it is. And, often, there 

10 are unintended consequences—people keep fiddling 

11 with the mask and they keep touching their face.’’. 

12 (8) Now, more than a year later, he is telling 

13 Americans to continue quarantining as much as pos14 sible and to wear a mask, maybe even into the year 

15 2022. 

16 (9) According to the Centers for Disease Con17 trol and Prevention, the vaccines have been ‘‘highly 

18 effective’’ at preventing infection. Research from 

19 Johns Hopkins Medicine has shown that the vaccine 

20 is 95 percent effective, and also works to prevent se21 rious illness in the 1 in 20 people who may contract 

22 COVID–19 after being vaccinated. Over 

23 100,000,000 vaccines have now been administered, 

24 and some studies show that those who have already 

25 contracted COVID–19 may only need 1 dose of the 


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1 vaccine to prevent reinfection rather than the 2 pre2 scribed. Despite these outcomes and his previous 

3 comments, Dr. Fauci has reversed course and is now 

4 sounding the alarm on COVID–19 variants, com5 menting: ‘‘The way we can counter [the UK vari6 ant], which is a growing threat in our country, is to 

7 do two things: to get as many people vaccinated as 

8 quickly and as expeditiously as possible with the vac9 cine that we know works against this variant and, 

10 finally, to implement the public health measures that 

11 we talk about all the time . . . masking, physical 

12 distancing and avoiding congregant settings, particu13 larly indoors.’’. 

14 (10) Dr. Fauci also now claims that herd im15 munity will require 80 to 85 percent of Americans 

16 to get the vaccine. 

17 (11) Dr. Fauci did not believe that American 

18 companies such as Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & 

19 Johnson would be able to produce an effective vac20 cine. In August 2020, he stated that the vaccine 

21 might only be 50 percent effective. 

22 SEC. 3. SALARY LIMITATION. 

23 Section 401 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

24 U.S.C. 281) is amended by adding at the end the fol25 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(i) RATE OF PAY OF DIRECTOR OF NIAID.— 

2 ‘‘(1) REDUCTION.—For all pay periods com3 mencing after the date of enactment of this Act, the 

4 annual rate of pay of the Director of the National 

5 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall be 

6 reduced to $0. 

7 ‘‘(2) NO ADJUSTMENT.—Paragraph (1) applies 

8 only until a new Director of the National Institute 

9 of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is appointed by 

10 the President and confirmed by the Senate, exclud11 ing Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D.’’. 

12 SEC. 4. TRANSPARENCY AUDIT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE 

13 DIRECTOR OF THE NIAID. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi15 sion of law, the Comptroller General of the United States 

16 shall complete an audit of the digital correspondence, pol17 icy memoranda, and financial transactions within the Of18 fice of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy 

19 and Infectious Diseases during the period of October 1, 

20 2019, through December 31, 2021. 

21 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

23 the audit required pursuant to subsection (a) is com24 pleted, the Comptroller General— 


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1 (A) shall submit to the Congress a report 

2 on the results of such audit; and 

3 (B) shall make such report available to the 

4 Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 

5 majority and minority leaders of the House of 

6 Representatives and the Senate, and any other 

7 Member of Congress who requests the report. 

8 (2) CONTENTS.—The audit report under sub9 section (a) shall include— 

10 (A) a detailed description of the digital 

11 correspondence (including text messages and 

12 emails) of the Director of the National Institute 

13 of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from October 

14 1, 2019, through December 31, 2021; 

15 (B) financial transactions approved by the 

16 Director of the National Institute of Allergy 

17 and Infectious Diseases from October 1, 2019, 

18 through December 31, 2021; and 

19 (C) any memoranda or policy reports writ20 ten within the Office of the Director of the Na21 tional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis22 eases related to the COVID–19 virus outbreak. 

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