Biden official accuses Trump administration of 'sabotage,' following a string of controversial foreign policy decisions in the final days of the presidency
The Biden official said: "We will manage this but it does start, at some point, to feel like sabotage. Not only do they know we don't want to implement some of these approaches; they don't even want to implement them."
The transition official then implied that the timing of these decisions was suspicious. "Which is why they're doing them now, rather than at any other point in the previous four years," they told PBS.
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The Trump Administration Was Just Kidding When It Said It Had Tons More Vaccine Doses to Ship Out (It Has Zero)
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According to the Washington Post, when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday that the government would begin shipping vaccine doses from a stockpile, state and local health officials interpreted that to mean they would get additional doses of the vaccine that the government had been holding back.
"Because we now have a consistent pace of production, we can now ship all of the doses that had been held in physical reserve," Azar said at a briefing on Tuesday. He also said that in the future, no doses would be kept in a stockpile and weekly shipments would contain doses to be used for first and second shots.
This led health officials to plan on expanding the pool of people who can receive the vaccine. But the vaccine doses in reserve were only booster shots for people who had already received the first of two shots needed to be vaccinated against Covid, senior administration officials told the New York times. They were not, as states expected, for new first doses of the vaccine.
"[Thursday] night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses," Oregon Governor Kate Brown said on Twitter.
The Biden official said: "We will manage this but it does start, at some point, to feel like sabotage. Not only do they know we don't want to implement some of these approaches; they don't even want to implement them."
The transition official then implied that the timing of these decisions was suspicious. "Which is why they're doing them now, rather than at any other point in the previous four years," they told PBS.
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The Trump Administration Was Just Kidding When It Said It Had Tons More Vaccine Doses to Ship Out (It Has Zero)
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According to the Washington Post, when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday that the government would begin shipping vaccine doses from a stockpile, state and local health officials interpreted that to mean they would get additional doses of the vaccine that the government had been holding back.
"Because we now have a consistent pace of production, we can now ship all of the doses that had been held in physical reserve," Azar said at a briefing on Tuesday. He also said that in the future, no doses would be kept in a stockpile and weekly shipments would contain doses to be used for first and second shots.
This led health officials to plan on expanding the pool of people who can receive the vaccine. But the vaccine doses in reserve were only booster shots for people who had already received the first of two shots needed to be vaccinated against Covid, senior administration officials told the New York times. They were not, as states expected, for new first doses of the vaccine.
"[Thursday] night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses," Oregon Governor Kate Brown said on Twitter.