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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) are teaming up on legislation to scrap the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which was led by Dr. Anthony Fauci for just shy of four decades.

NIAID is an agency that operates under the umbrella of the National Institutes of Health and seeks to develop treatments and countermeasures to infectious diseases. Under the NIH Reform Act announced Thursday, Paul and Roy are seeking to divvy up the NIAID into three separate research institutions.

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Weve learned a lot over the past few years, but one lesson, in particular, is that no one person should be deemed 'dictator-in-chief.' No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans, Paul said in a statement. This will create accountability and oversight into a taxpayer-funded position that has largely abused its power."

The three successor institutions to NIAID would be the National Institute of Allergic Diseases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Immunologic Diseases. Directors of each agency must be confirmed via the Senate and would be capped at two five-year terms under the proposal.

Paul frequently grilled and sparred with Fauci over his counsel and activity surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Recently, Paul alleged that Fauci "weaponized the NIAID."

From the earliest days of the pandemic, unaccountable public health bureaucracies proved themselves far more adept at ruining lives than saving them. Never again should a single individual, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, wield unchecked power and influence over the lives of the American people. Breaking up Dr. Faucis taxpayer-funded bully pulpit into three separate agencies," Roy said.

A press release for the NIH Reform Act likened Fauci's tenure to that of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who was notorious for weaponizing the FBI against political foes.

"In the aftermath of J. Edgar Hoovers decades-long tenure as head of the FBI, Congress passed a law in 1976 limiting the FBI Director to a single 10-year term," the release said. "Congress must enact the NIH Reform Act to ensure that one official cannot claim the unquestioned authority to dictate the governmental responses to public health questions."

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Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) co-sponsored the bill. Fauci stepped down as the head of the NIAID and as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser late last year.

The Washington Examiner contacted an NIAID representative for comment.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Thursday said he would not vaccinate his children against Covid, citing concerns over potential heart inflammation.

Paul, a doctor and an outspoken opponent of Covid mitigation measures, said he is concerned about the risk of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, from taking the vaccine.

I, frankly, wouldnt vaccinate my children for Covid, Paul told The Hill on Thursday. I think the risks of the vaccine are greater than the risks of the disease. The risks of the disease are almost non-existent.

A very small group of people in the United States have experienced myocarditis after being given Covid vaccines based on mRNA technology. Myocarditis is a condition that has long been linked to a number of viral infections, including influenza and coxsackieviruses, as well as Covid.

Paul suggested that young people take only one dose of the Covid vaccine instead of multiple doses, saying that there is a higher risk of myocarditis among young people after they receive the second dose.

If you want to give them a vaccine and theyve already had Covid, why not one instead of three? I think it really is malpractice, he said. There is room to debate but I dont think theres any evidence to give three vaccines.

Pauls remarks come a day after he grilled Moderna CEO Stphane Bancelduring a hearing about the potential risk of myocarditis for young men following Covid shots.

I also spoke with your president just last week, and he readily acknowledged in private that, yes, there is an increased risk of myocarditis, Paul said during the hearing Wednesday. The fact that you cant say it in public is quite disturbing.

He repeatedly clashed at Senate hearings with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the governments top infectious disease expert, for his handling of the pandemic. They argued over topics ranging fromherd immunityto theorigins of the virus.

Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.

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Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul recently revealed the details of a private conversation he had with the president of Moderna.

On Wednesday, the CEO of Moderna Stphane Bancel testified before a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and was questioned by several of the committee's members including Senator Paul.

A portion of Paul's questions were focused on myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, after individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Paul asked Bancel if there's a higher incidence of myocarditis "among boys 16 to 24 after they take" the Moderna vaccine. Bancel said that the rate of myocarditis for the specific age and gender group is less than those who contract COVID-19.

Paul then went on to dispute Bancel's remark and said, "I also spoke with your president just last week and he readily acknowledged, in private, that yes there is an increased risk of myocarditis. The fact that you can't say it in public is quite disturbing."

The comments by Paul come amid ongoing speculation about the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which were prompted by a report from the Wall Street Journal detailing a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report that said the novel virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Following the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, officials across the globe worked quickly to develop a vaccine to curb the spread of the virus. Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson became the three companies that were able to develop a vaccine that has been administered to millions of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In the months following the rollout of the vaccines, some cases of myocarditis and pericarditis appeared in adolescent males.

"Myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been reported. When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna)," the CDC states.

According to the CDC, cases of myocarditis and pericarditis are most common after the second dose of an mRNA vaccine, such as the one developed by Moderna and usually occur within a week of receiving the second dose.

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Despite the remarks by Paul on Wednesday, the CDC states, "The known risks of COVID-19 illness and its related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death, far outweigh the potential risks of having a rare adverse reaction to vaccination, including the possible risk of myocarditis or pericarditis."

Newsweek reached out to Paul's press office and Moderna for comment via email.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waded into a right-wing culture war over the weekend and was forced into an embarrassing retreat.

Paul posted and then deleted a tweet with a photo of the senator standing next to a child. In the tweet, Paul asked if people could believe the child was disciplined for wearing this shirt in Utah.The shirt shows guns that have been arranged to look like an American flag.

Lets start with a fundamental truth about the Republican Party: We cant assume anything its members say is true. The party of election denialism has lost any benefit of the doubt. So Im really doing Paul a service in even treating this as a real story.

But thats only because the way it played out was so hilarious.

Of course, I can see why such a shirt would spur concern. And, whats more, when people began to search for images of the shirt, they found that it was advertised for sale on multiple websites with a name that referred to a sex position.

So, to rehash Pauls question: Is it conceivable to me that a student was disciplined for wearing a shirt that depicts deadly weapons often used to murder schoolchildren seemingly engaged in sex?

Yes, I can believe that.

Rand Paul belongs to a Republican Party that claims to abhor groomers, yet here he is getting worked up over someones aversion to a child wearing sexually suggestive gun paraphernalia.

As can the throngs of people on social media who mocked Paul over his tweet. The senator, after all, does belong to a Republican Party that claims to abhor groomers, yet here he is getting worked up over someones aversion to a child wearing sexually suggestive gun paraphernalia.

The liberals want your kids to trifle with nonsense in school, like treating one another kindly and making everyone feel safe and welcomed.

Meanwhile, conservatives like Rand Paul are focused on the important stuff like how X-rated your childs T-shirt can be.

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When J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, he had been director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 37 years. When he started in that post, the Air Force was not yet a separate branch of the armed forces. By the time his tenure ended, Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon.

The governments civil rights abuses over that long period are well known. Hoovers FBI spied on groups like the NAACP and the ACLU and conducted domestic surveillance on almost any prominent figure who seemed politically threatening.

Albert Einstein, an early opponent of nuclear weapons, had an FBI file over 1,400 pages long by the time he died in 1955. John Lennon was put under surveillance after he met with anti-war activists in New York in 1971. The INS tried to deport him a year later. Perhaps most infamously, in 1964 Hoovers FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King, Jr., attempting to blackmail him into committing suicide.

J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sits at his desk in the Justice Department, in 1928. (Getty Images)

Many of the FBIs activities in those years were blatantly unconstitutional, but few were brave enough to speak out against them. It was too dangerous to cross Director Hoover. His influence was so strong that when he turned 70, President Lyndon Johnson issued an executive order granting him a special exemption from mandatory retirement under the Civil Service Retirement Act.

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A decade later, public opinion began to shift. Six presidents had come and gone while Hoover remained at the top of the most formidable law enforcement agency the world had ever known. But when his abuses of office came to light, they sparked an outcry against one man holding the reins of power for so long. So, in 1976, Congress enacted a 10-year term limit for the FBI director.

In more recent times, another power-hungry figure outlasted seven presidents and oversaw his agencys transformation from a medical research institute into the foremost biodefense research agency on Earth. Yet in nearly four decades, the Senate never once voted to confirm him. The law never required it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci attends an event to urge Americans to get vaccinated ahead of the holiday season in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

As an old saying goes, those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for over 38 years, and by the time he retired he was drawing the largest salary in the entire federal government.

His salary skyrocketed after 9/11, when the George W. Bush administration, at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney, brought all biodefense research under the control of the NIAID director. This included projects that were previously overseen by military or intelligence agencies. As one article put it,"[w]ith the stroke of Cheneys pen, all United States biodefence [sic] efforts, classified or unclassified, were placed under the aegis of Anthony Fauci [who]... went from being the director of one of the NIHs constituent 27 institutes to being the only one who really mattered."

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We now know Dr. Fauci used his perch atop the nations biodefense research apparatus to finance gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses in China. In doing so, he bypassed a security protocol to screen out projects that posed too much risk.

Though the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are still unknown, some scientists believe it may have begun in a lab. If so, the virus may have developed from a research method like the ones Dr. Fauci was bankrolling.

The American people deserve better. Thats why I recently introduced the NIH Reform Act to divide the NIAID into three parts that align with its stated mission"to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases."

Dr. Anthony Fauci adjusts his face mask during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2021. (Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)

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As its currently configured, the NIAIDs jurisdiction covers everything from asthma to Ebola, from peanut allergies to the plague. My bill would replace it with three independent institutes:one for infectious diseases, one for immunologic diseases, and one for allergic diseases. The director of each new institute would be appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and (in keeping with the 10-year precedent at the post-Hoover FBI) permitted to serve no more than two five-year terms.

J. Edgar Hoover and Anthony Fauci are two real-life examples of how too much power in too few hands creates an echo chamber where decisions cannot be questioned. But a free and open society depends upon questioning those in power. A peoples trust in science depends upon it, too.

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