Why let facts, scientific consensus, and public polling get in the way of government policy – especially when it has a troll-y name like the “Fire Fauci Act?”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wants to reduce Dr. Anthony Fauci’s salary to $0 until a replacement can be confirmed by the Senate.
One problem: the Senate does not confirm the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci’s longtime role.
Another obstacle is that Fauci is extremely popular. A majority of Republicans say Fauci has done a “good or excellent job handling the pandemic,” according to Morning Consult. Democrats and Independents overwhelmingly approve of the eighty year-old immunologist, whose $434,312 salary is the highest among federal officials. Greene calls him “Dr. Always Wrong.”
The “Fire Fauci Act” wasn’t the only legislative suggestion put forth by the Trump sycophant on Thursday. Greene also proposed the “We Will Not Comply Act,” which contains a familiar mix on anti-science measures disguised as “freedom” for the “American people.”
The “We Will Not Comply Act,” would ban “vaccine passports” and prevent businesses, including airlines, from refusing to serve unvaccinated customers. It would also prohibit vaccine requirements at schools.
In a press release announcing the two bills, Greene bemoaned discrimination against vaccine hesitant Americans. She also warned of “Corporate Communist,” a contradictory term apparently lost on the elected official who once said there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
There is evidence. Greene eventually walked back those statements, but has not corrected the record on a long-list of conspiracy theories she’s promoted.
Greene has used her brief tenure in the House of Representatives to advance conspiracy theories, spread anti-LGBTQ hate, and drive a wedge in the quickly fraying Republican Party.
