
Fauci Loses Wildly Over-Priced Taxpayer-Funded Security for New Year
Anthony Fauci will head into the new year as one of the highest-paid former federal employees in the nation.
But he won’t have the personal security detail that until recently burned even more taxpayer dollars.
The former COVID czar had been receiving security from the U.S. Marshals Service for the past two years, but he was recently pictured with what appears to be a private security guard outside of his home in Washington, D.C., after his Marshals entourage was disbanded, per a Monday report from the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
The outlet snapped photos of Fauci speaking with a member of his security team, as well as walking unaccompanied in his neighborhood.
In previous months, he was constantly surrounded by multiple Marshals. The entourage was prominent when Fauci ventured to television studios to record promos for his memoir, according to the Daily Mail.
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases indeed had a massive federally funded security detail, costing the taxpayers $15 million between January 2023 and September 2024 alone, according to a federal memo obtained by Open The Books.
Now that the government funding has expired, Fauci appears to have shelled out for his own security services.
Fauci himself is currently worth $11 million.
That D.C. home outside of which he was photographed is valued at some $2.2 million, per real estate websites examined by the Daily Mail.
Even beyond the substantial nest egg, Fauci continues raking in around $$414,000 every year from the taxpayers in the form of his federal pension, per a previous analysis from Open The Books.
That means he makes more every year in retirement than the annual $400,000 salary allotted to President Joe Biden.