Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senator Rand Paul gets into an elevator after 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 committee on Thursday 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 Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)