Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to slash Faucie's salary to $0

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday she is introducing two bills related to the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim of stripping Dr. Anthony Fauci of his government salary and banning so-called vaccine passports. 

In a press release Greene tweeted, the controversial Georgia Republican said her ‘Fire Fauci Act’ would decrease the top doctor’s pay to $0 and the ‘We Will Not Compy Act’ will ‘prevent discrimination against the unvaccinated.’  

Greene said her goal was to have Fauci remain unpaid until the Senate can confirm a new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – except Fauci isn’t a political appointee, he’s a career civil servant – and so the bill wouldn’t work. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci (left) is being targeted by legislation Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (right) said Thursday she was introducing 

High-level presidential political appointees need Senate confirmation.  

But in Fauci’s case, he’s a career civil servant who’s held his job since the Reagan administration, advising presidents of both parties. 

When former President Donald Trump suggested to a Miami campaign rally crowd in November that he might fire Fauci after the election, experts pointed to federal laws that would prevent him from directly making the move. 

‘There are civil service protections for career federal employees that prevent them from being removed or demoted for political reasons,’ Max Stier, president and CEO of Partnership for Public Service, told CNN in July, when tensions between Fauci and Trump were already apparent. 

Trump could have pressured Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, a political appointee, to get rid of Fauci – but there’s a process Fauci could pursue to stay in his job.  

Greene was correct in noting that Fauci is the highest paid government official, currently making $434,312, according to her office. 

Salary data from 2019 said Fauci was making $417,608.