Then, the veto. The president cited a few reasons for his decision to send back the National Defense Authorization Act. Among them is a clause in the bill that would rename several military bases currently honoring Confederate leaders.
Trump had promised to veto the bill in advance. Such an action, our staff writer David A. Graham argued last week, “would provide a fitting bookend to the Trump years by reprising two of its central themes: pointless defenses of white supremacy, and nearly complete legislative failure.”
JULIAN MONTAGUE
A reader named Patricia writes in from South Carolina:
I had an anaphylactic reaction 25 years ago to a routine tetanus shot, and it was terrifying. … Now I am reading that the National Health Service in the U.K. advised that people who have had such reactions to anything should not take the Pfizer vaccine. I had already wondered about getting the vaccine when it becomes available, but now I am even more disinclined to do so. Should I be?