Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is all set to take over as Chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee starting at the beginning of 2025 after serving as the panel’s top member of the GOP for two years. And his first order of business is to dig deep and uncover the full truth concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. This is noble work and there’s no better man for this particular mission than Paul. Ever since the nightmare of the pandemic struck the country four years ago, he has been a consistent voice demanding the truth and that those who were involved in cover-ups and other constitutional violations be held accountable for what they did.
“I chose to chair this committee over another because I believe that, for the health of our republic, Congress must stand up once again for its constitutional role,” Paul (R-Ky.) went on to say in during an exclusive interview Wednesday. “This committee’s mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself.”
“I think we’re on the cusp of, really, the beginning of uncovering what happened with COVID,” the 61-year-old Kentucky senator continued.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
After years of subpoenaing government agencies about research grants and funding related to the origins of the coronavirus, Paul believes his newfound power — coupled with a sympathetic president in the White House come Jan. 20 — will help promote transparency.
“We are going to, hopefully, have a friendlier administration, and we’re hoping that there will be a friendly person at [the Department of Health and Human Services], and we’re hoping they’ll be friendly at [the National Institutes of Health],” he explained.
Paul is also spearheading an effort to pass the Risky Research Review Act, which would pump the brakes on dangerous scientific work — like the gain-of-function research many believe created the virus which caused the worst global outbreak in a century. “The biggest item of the COVID coverup is that for years, we’ve known there is this dangerous research,” said Paul, who added that he wants to ensure Americans are free to discuss such topics without fear of suppression by the government in tandem with social media companies.
Paul recalled being censored on YouTube for saying cloth masks don’t work against COVID-19 and Twitter’s censorship of The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election as examples of abuse of power by both the government and Big Tech. “The idea that the government would pre-emptively be telling people not to publish things, to me, is horrendous,” he said.
The next priority on Paul’s list will be to oversee border security. He’s joined President-elect Donald Trump in calling for convicted criminals in the country illegally to be targeted for deportation immediately, as soon as Trump takes office in late January. Paul also stated that he wants Trump to put his “Remain in Mexico” policy back in place. This order forced asylum seekers to wait for the outcome of their cases south of the border instead of allowing the wander free in the United States.
“Most people don’t understand, myself included, why, if you’re illegally coming across a river in a boat or walking, you’re not just deposited back on the other side?” he asked. “You’re breaking the law.”
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