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Vanity Fair reports:
The quest to get on the White House list—which was closely guarded by Meadows’s office and a small cadre of NSC officials—attracted an array of supplicants. They ranged from the representatives of cabinet secretaries to young White House desk jockeys to those prepared to leverage their connections to President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Among this group, Vanity Fair has learned, were chiefs of staff of cabinet agencies, some of whose bosses had become notorious for publicly disregarding pandemic safeguards like mask wearing. They wanted to know, “Would they be able to get four or six doses for their front office?” said a former senior administration official. Though some would claim to be inquiring on behalf of their teams, the official said, in fact “their ask was not about their employees.”
Read the full article. Fascinating but not surprising machinations which ultimately failed for most.
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investigation chronicles the battle in the Trump Admin’s final days over which federal employees would get scarce #COVID19 vaccinations. https://t.co/ii7ebmEvEk #ShotChasers (corrected link) /1— Katherine Eban (@KatherineEban) March 15, 2021
A closely guarded @WhiteHouse list attracted almost every stripe of would-be line jumper, from reps of Cabinet secretaries to young desk jockeys to those claiming ties to @jaredkushner. /2
— Katherine Eban (@KatherineEban) March 15, 2021
The process for divvying up vaccines to federal employees was so opaque, White House COVID-19 task force members suspected doses were being “siphoned” off the top. /3
— Katherine Eban (@KatherineEban) March 15, 2021
Inside #OperationWarpSpeed, General Perna’s deputies told @WHNSC officials to “kiss the ring” to get doses. “I don’t take orders from a child,” Perna fumed at a fraught meeting over which employees got shots. /END
— Katherine Eban (@KatherineEban) March 15, 2021