Kentucky Senator Rand Paul introduced an amendment that would eliminate Dr. Anthony Fauci’s role as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The proposal seeks to mitigate the risk of a second “dictator in chief” by decentralizing the NAID so no one individual is making all of the decisions.

Fox News reports:

Paul’s amendment would reorganize NIAID by breaking it down into three separate national research institutes, all with their own director, including the National Institute of Allergic Diseases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Immunologic Diseases.

“We’ve learned a lot over the past two years, but one lesson in particular is that no one person should be deemed ‘dictator-in-chief,’” Paul said in a statement announcing the amendment. “No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans.”

“This will create accountability and oversight into a taxpayer funded position that has largely abused its power, and has been responsible for many failures and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

The three proposed institutes would be led by a director who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for a 5-year term.

“I’ve been a physician for over 33 years,” Paul wrote in a piece Monday for Fox News Digital. “In all my years studying and practicing medicine, I had never encountered someone with the gall to proclaim himself ‘the science’ and portray anyone opposing him as ‘attacking science.’ That is, until Dr. Fauci became the COVID dictator-in-chief.”