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In his final hours as president, Biden pardons Fauci, Capitol Police and others

Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends an event in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9, 2022.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends an event in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9, 2022.

President Biden said on Monday that he would issue pardons to General Mark A. Milley, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee — hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office.

"The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense," Biden said in a statement.

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Tamara Keith
Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic.