Posted: Apr 30, 2020 / 03:17 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 30, 2020 / 03:20 PM EDT

Lansing, Mich. (WLNS) Progress Michigan is calling on House Speaker Lee Chatfield to censure Rep. Pamela Hornberger for using the Holocaust as an attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Dr. Fauci has received additional security after threats were made against him early this month.

The increase in security came at the request of the Health and Human Services Inspector General (HHS IG), the officials said.

The representatives post attacking Fauci was posted to her Facebook:

The Republicans in Lansing both at the protests and in the legislature are showing their true colors. We expect House Speaker Lee Chatfield to formally censure Rep. Pamela Hornberger immediately, saidLonnie Scott, executive director at Progress Michigan.

She has disgraced her office by using the millions of people who were murdered during the Holocaust as a shameful political punchline. The lives of those who were murdered should not be used to attack public health officials who are doing what they can to keep people safe. This type of toxic rhetoric and relentless racism we have seen at our Capitol, including from a sitting Senator, has become rampant during the COVID-19 crisis and it needs to end. As a state, we need to be standing together, but Rep. Hornbergers post and Sen. Zorns confederate flag mask only further divide us. Chatfield, Shirkey and the Republican caucus need to act immediately to denounce this and hold Hornberger and Zorn accountable without delay.

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