Newsweek reached out to Carter for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

In the bill, Greene took issue with Fauci's high salary and his evolving stance on masks, position on keeping public health measures in place as people were vaccinated, and the amount of Americans needed to achieve herd immunity.

During the earliest months of the pandemic, Fauci advised Americans against wearing masks unless a person felt ill. At the time, masks were largely viewed as a way to help prevent people from spreading the virus rather than providing protection against contracting it.

Multiple public health experts backed Fauci's comments that mask-wearing would only be effective if a person could dispose of them after a single use and avoid touching their face.

By April, Fauci was advising all Americans to wear a mask, a shift his critics have honed in on to fuel the argument that he is not a trustworthy source to guide the pandemic response. Fauci, however, has made no apologies for his conflicting recommendations, putting the root cause of the shift on advancements in knowledge about the virus.

"I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct," Fauci told InStyle in July. "When it became clear that the infection could be spread by asymptomatic carriers who don't know they're infected, that made it very clear that we had to strongly recommend masks."

If Greene's bill were to become law, it would reduce Fauci's pay to $0 for all pay periods after the commencement of the act until a new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is appointed and confirmed. The bill also calls for an audit of his emails, policy memorandum and financial transactions.

Despite a growing number of Republicans pushing back on Fauci's status as an expert, Greene's bill is unlikely to move through Congress, as Democrats hold the majority in the House.