Senate investigators released private text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci's government phone showing he raised concerns about mRNA vaccines and first-trimester miscarriage, even as he publicly told pregnant women the shots were safe.

Sen. Ron Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, made the first batch of messages public on Monday, calling the gap between Fauci's private words and his public assurances a matter of immediate public safety. The texts, dated January 25, 2021, show Fauci writing directly to then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Vivek Murthy, who became Surgeon General under the Biden administration, about a risk he never disclosed to the millions of women urged, and in some cases required, to take the shot.

The message from Fauci's government-issued iPhone is blunt. In it, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the face of the federal COVID-19 response, told two of the nation's top health officials that the second vaccine dose could pose a specific danger to pregnant women early in their pregnancies.

Fauci's own words: fever after the second dose 'could be associated with miscarriage'

The key text, as Fox News Digital first reported, reads:

"I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester."

That warning stayed private. It went to Walensky and Murthy, not to the public, not to the doctors advising pregnant patients, and not to the women making decisions about their own pregnancies and their own bodies.

Nine days later, on February 3, 2021, Fauci publicly stated that the FDA had found "no red flags" for pregnant women regarding the vaccine, the New York Post reported. The contrast between what he said behind closed doors and what he told the country could hardly be sharper. In private: a theoretical risk of miscarriage. In public, barely a week later: no red flags.

Johnson did not hold back about the contradiction.

"We tell [pregnant women] don't even have a glass of wine and yet we coerce them, convince them, sometimes mandated them, to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first trimester. This is truly sick."

Johnson also pointed out a fact that compounds the significance of the disclosure: despite years of congressional scrutiny, no federal health official had previously acknowledged this kind of concern about the mRNA shots and pregnancy.

"I've never heard a federal health official admit that about the injections."

34,000 messages and 522 voicemails, and senators can't confirm nothing was deleted

The January 2021 text is only the beginning. Johnson and Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who partnered with him in the investigation, obtained Fauci's government iPhone from the Department of Health and Human Services. The device contains more than 34,000 text messages and 522 voicemails, Breitbart reported. The senators have not been able to confirm whether any data was deleted before they received the phone.

Johnson said his staff recognized the urgency of the miscarriage text and moved to release it ahead of the rest of the trove.

"This is going to take time, but when my staff saw this, I mean, to me, this immediately impacts public safety, immediately impacts informed consent. And so I had to get this one out there right away. But there are, I'm sure, way more to come."

The broader investigation into government misconduct through official records and devices is not limited to Fauci's phone. Declassified FBI documents have separately revealed how federal officials suppressed inconvenient intelligence, a pattern that looks familiar in light of what Fauci's texts now show.

Johnson's office released a statement alongside the texts asserting that the conversation "could have an immediate impact of public health and the principle of informed consent," the Washington Examiner reported.

Johnson challenges a published study's math, and calls the result 'shocking'

Beyond the texts themselves, Johnson drew attention to a June 2021 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Tom Shimabukuro. Johnson argued that the study's own data, when read correctly, paints a far grimmer picture than its authors presented.

Johnson described the study as tracking 827 pregnancies exposed to mRNA vaccines. Of those, he said, 700 women received the injection in the third trimester and 127 received it in the first or second trimester. The 104 cases the study labeled "spontaneous abortions", miscarriages, occurred among those 127 women who were vaccinated early in pregnancy, Johnson said.

He did the division on camera.

"So the proper percentage is 104 divided by 127, an 82% miscarriage rate with women who got the injection in the first second trimester. I mean, that is shocking, and they knew it. They knew it, they're not that stupid. They're just that devious to play with the statistics that way to misinform, to lie to the American public."

These figures are Johnson's characterization and calculation based on the published study. The article does not independently verify whether the study's methodology or conclusions support his reframing. But his broader point stands on its own terms: the people responsible for informing the public had access to data that, at minimum, warranted serious caution, and instead promoted the shots aggressively to pregnant women.

Senate Republicans have faced their own internal obstacles in recent months. Legislative efforts have stalled amid caucus turmoil, but the Fauci investigation represents one area where GOP senators have pressed forward with tangible results.

Fauci invoked the Fifth, and Congress held him in contempt

Fauci has repeatedly declined to answer questions before Congress, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. At a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Fauci asserted that right rather than address the substance of the investigation.

Paul moved to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. The vote succeeded, and the matter has been referred to the Department of Justice. Whether DOJ acts on the referral remains an open question, one that will test whether accountability applies equally to officials who wielded enormous power during the pandemic.

Johnson signaled that the contempt proceeding and the text releases are part of a single, larger effort. He told Just The News that his investigation has "only just begun" now that his committee has the documents and the phone in hand.

Fox News Digital reported that Fauci's law firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Johnson, for his part, made clear he intends to give Fauci another chance to explain himself, voluntarily or otherwise.

"He's the only guy that can answer some of these questions. So we'll give him another opportunity. We've invited him. His attorneys have contacted us. If they don't set that up voluntarily, I will subpoena him."

The dynamic on Capitol Hill continues to shift as Senate conservatives look for leverage across multiple fronts, from government funding to oversight of the federal bureaucracy. The Fauci investigation now sits squarely at the center of that broader push for accountability.

'Tip of the iceberg', and 34,000 reasons to believe it

Johnson called the released text "the tip of the iceberg." With more than 34,000 messages still to review, that description may prove accurate. The question is what else Fauci told Walensky, Murthy, and others in private, and how far the gap stretched between what top officials knew and what they told the American people.

The broader pattern is difficult to dismiss. In January 2021, Fauci privately flagged a miscarriage risk. By February, he publicly said there were no red flags. By June, a study appeared with data that, on Johnson's reading, showed an 82 percent miscarriage rate among women vaccinated in the first two trimesters. And through it all, the official message to pregnant women never changed: get the shot.

Johnson framed the significance in terms that cut past the politics.

"And the way this has been, I've known about this for years. But finally, because we have a text associated with St. Fauci, it's finally getting the play in the media that it's been deserving for years."

That frustration, years of raising alarms that went ignored until a famous name's own words surfaced, is shared by millions of Americans who were told to trust the experts, follow the science, and stop asking questions. The political battles in the Senate will come and go. But for the women who took the shot in their first trimester because their government told them it was safe, no congressional hearing can undo what was done.

When the people in charge know the risk and hide it, that is not a policy disagreement. It is a betrayal of the public trust, and the texts on Fauci's phone are now the proof.