Paul chose it over leading HELP, a Senate committee on health, education and labor. One of the committee’s first tasks: the confirmation hearing for Trump’s nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security,

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, announced he will serve as chairman for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Sen. Rand Paul will take over the chairmanship of the upper chamber’s Homeland Security Committee starting in January after two years as the panel’s top Republican — and he’s told The Post he wants to uncover the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic.