Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed on Monday he subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear before Congress in July, after saying the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director failed to show up to a Senate hearing last month. “Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so,” Paul wrote in a post to X. “Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.”The development comes as Fauci has attracted sweeping scrutiny for how he handled COVID-19 during the Biden administration, when he was the top medical adviser to then-President Joe Biden and pushed for mandatory vaccinations, masks, and social distancing. Fauci has particularly attracted criticism from Paul and others due to accusations that he could be to blame for the origins of COVID-19. Intelligence officials released hundreds of documents last week indicating Fauci authorized gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in a Chinese lab and then used his role as adviser to intelligence agencies to hide the information from U.S. investigators amid concerns that the research triggered the pandemic.