Azar Dismisses Bipartisan Report On Govs Urging More Fed Funding On COVID As ‘Partisan Sniping’ | Talking Points Memo

HHS secretary Alex Azar on Sunday dismissed a bipartisan report by the National Governors Association last week, which found that governors requested at least $8.4 billion in federal funds to conduct COVID-19 vaccination program activities, as “partisan sniping” during an interview on CBS.


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HHS secretary Alex Azar on Sunday dismissed a bipartisan report by the National Governors Association last week, which found that governors requested at least $8.4 billion in federal funds to conduct COVID-19 vaccination program activities, as “partisan sniping” during an interview on CBS.

So partisan, in fact, that governors from both parties are in on it! Can you get any more partisan than that?

Tito’s ghost: “Ahem.”

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I sincerely hope the GOP bubble bursts before the Georgia election.

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hey. he has to set this up so the states take the rap if this whole vaccine distribution goes wrong.
It will be like, trump made the vaccine, trump put it one the trucks and it’s been delivered to the states.
what more could he have done, give the shots himself?

besides, trump promised huge bonuses on Jan 19th, we wouldn’t want to take any funds from our taxpayer funded piggy bank. The more we keep, the more we get.

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Isn’t Azar the guy who didn’t buy enough vaccines for the country? And didn’t he refuse to call Biden, “President-elect” last week on Fox? Please, do tell me more about this “partisan sniping”, Mr. Azar.

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Thirty-nine more days in Office

Historical infamy

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Eat a trash bag full of dicks, Alex.

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Do these people ever have Democrats on these Sunday Gabgobblergossip shows?

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My god, where did Trump find these people!

There’s a reason air traffic control is federalized: airplanes are indifferent to borders just like plague you sorry ass!

Oh, fuck it!

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Well, we need to hear from our government. In a month, we’ll need to hear from the opposition.

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Not nearly blunt enough.

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this count down is worse than the election itself was. I had confidence in a Biden Win
I feel like the country is tip toeing through a mine field of nukes.
long long way to go and the monster still breathes.

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Exactly.

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This is what you might call the mother of all unfunded mandates.

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Someone needs to remind Azar – shouting in his face perhaps – that te vaccines are on the trucks, in the planes, and on their way to points all over the country. Without adequate funding, the states may well be unable to dispense all the vaccines BEFORE THEY SPOIL!!!

No Mr. Azar, we do not expect you and your overseer Trump to deliver and inject the vaccines, what we do expect is that your administration make possible – by funding – the states’ ability to deliver the vaccines into the arms of real people. Is that clear enough for you, jackass?

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Josef Mengele is somewhere in Azar’s family tree.

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Once a drug company flak, always a drug company flak. Traitor to his fellow citizens.

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It’s pretty clear that every person in the administration, including Trump, realizes that he has lost and that Biden will be inaugurated. If the administration and the GOP in Congress really thought that Trump was going to be in office past January 20, they would provide the funding. It’s obvious that they want this to be a disaster, and they really don’t care how many people die as a result. It’s criminal.

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The worst of the worst still hanging on. This putz, Wilbur Ross, Pompous, Mnuchin, DeVos, Carson…

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