Capitol Hill Confrontations: Becerra and Johnson Face Scrutiny Over COVID-19 Origins and Budget Battles.

Senator Ron Johnson confronted HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra about unredacted emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci regarding the origins of COVID-19 during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Johnson asked Becerra if an employee in his department is spearheading the investigation into COVID’s origins, to which Becerra responded that the department’s inspector general, the CDC, and the NIH are "doing a scrub." Johnson accused Becerra of not complying with the law because his agency is redacting things between agencies and organizations outside federal agencies when requested by Senate offices. Johnson asked Becerra to provide the last 50 pages of communications between Fauci, Francis Collins, and David Ferrar regarding the origins of the coronavirus.