The Republican senator has spent years battling Anthony S. Fauci and public-health experts over the pandemic’s origins.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, announced he will serve as chairman for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

When Republicans officially take control of the U.S. Senate in January, a longtime critic of the national security state and the federal government's

Sen. Rand Paul will take over the chairmanship of the upper chamber’s Homeland Security Committee starting in January after two years as the panel’s top Republican — and he’s told The Post he wants to uncover the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul chose it over leading HELP, a Senate committee on health, education and labor. One of the committee’s first tasks: the confirmation hearing for Trump’s nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security,