Trump appointees aggressively lobbied against giving states COVID-19 vaccine rollout funds
As states were formulating plans to vaccinate their residents against COVID-19 last fall, top Trump administration officials pushed Congress to deny the state governments any extra funding for the vaccine rollout,
Stat News reported Sunday. The officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and White House Office of Management and Budget chief Russ Vought, disregarded frantic warnings from state officials that they didn t have the money they needed to ramp up a massive vaccination operation, focusing instead on $200 million the states had not yet spent,
Stat reports.
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David Carr, the legendary Timesman who made this column a destination, told me back in 2012 that he kept a “helicopter on the roof” of The New York Times Building in case he needed to escape. After all, he had been taking shots at media moguls, including, occasionally, his own bosses. That helicopter, he said, was his Twitter account, and it gave him the power, if needed, to flee The Times and take his followers more than 300,000 when he died in 2015.
Former President Donald Trump's office announced Sunday evening that lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr. will represent him at his Senate impeachment trial. Trump's previous team of five lawyers, led by Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, had parted ways with Trump on Saturday, and he faces a Tuesday deadline to file a response to the House's impeachment charge that he incited an insurrection. Castor, a former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, famously declined to charge Bill Cosby with sexual assault in 2006. Schoen, a defense lawyer based in Atlanta, told The Atlanta Jewish Times in September that he has "represented all sorts of reputed mobster figures: alleged head of Russian mafia in this country, Israeli mafia and two Italian bosses, as well a guy the government claimed was the biggest mafioso in the world." He also met with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in jail shortly before his death in 2019 and has said he believ
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Health officials in Minnesota announced the first case of the highly transmissible COVID variant from Brazil has arrived in their state (and, by extension, the US): It is one of three variants that has been of concern to global scientists.
The Dutch are rioting over new COVID-19 restrictions: Cops fired warning shots and tear gas and turned water canons on crowds before arresting 250 people at anti-lockdown protests across the Netherlands, the BBC reports. The riots came after the Dutch government imposed a 4 p.m. curfew over the weekend to slow the spread of the deadly virus, which has infected almost one million people and killed over 13,500 in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.