The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”

"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a spokesperson.

Biden Monday issued several preemptive pardons, some to family members. Following the transition of power, Trump wielded his own clemency power.

Dr. Anthony Fauci helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID pandemic. He has never been charged with a crime, yet received a “full and unconditional” pardon back to Jan. 1, 2014.

Dr. Kelly Victory, chief of disaster and emergency medicine at The Wellness Company, warns that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and COVID advisor to the Biden administration,

With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.

LibsofTiktok, a prominent MAGA handle wrote: "Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci. There is now zero doubt that Fauci is a criminal, guilty of crimes against humanity."

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S.

The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.

The outgoing president acted to short-circuit incoming President Trump’s stated plans to exact retribution from perceived enemies.

Biden‘s last-minute pardon of Anthony Fauci was not done to spare an "innocent" person from abuse by dishonest politicians. Biden likely did it to prevent an