In the meantime, she said Mr. Trump “absolutely” encourages Americans to take the vaccine, once it is available to them, as the first doses of Pfizer’s version are doled out across the country. A second vaccine, from Moderna, is on track for approval by the end of the week.
Ms. McEnany said senior officials with national-security positions will be receiving the vaccines publicly in the coming days. She said to stay tuned for the list of names.
Mr. Trump’s position is somewhat unique, she said, since he may be producing an immune response already.
“He did recently recover from COVID,” she said.
Religious liberty disputes expected for 2021 in US
Religious liberty watchers say they are worried
Updated: December 15, 2020 06:44 AM GMT
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The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington,DC on December 7, 2020. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
History may show that religious liberties under the Donald Trump administration enjoyed an elevated level of support not seen perhaps since the administration of President George W. Bush.
How far and how quickly the religious liberties landscape will change in the coming four years under an expected Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration remains to be seen. But religious liberty watchers say they are worried.
Daniel P. Dalton, a religious property attorney and co-founder of Michigan-based Dalton + Tomich, which represented a California-based private Catholic school in a contentious campus expansion and renovation effort, sees several key indicators that religious entities will continue to be in the legal and cultural spotlight in 2021.
Trump s election loss coping mechanism is straight out of The Simpsons
December 15, 2020
President Trump is reportedly getting close to admitting he lost the 2020 election. Just don t call it a loss.
Trump thoroughly lost his re-election bid to President-elect Joe Biden, something the end of Trump s legal challenges and the Electoral College affirmed on Monday. And while Trump is getting close to at least tacitly admitting he s out of the White House, he d rather frame it as a non-win, one source who talked to him recently told
Axios. If we don t win, I don t say lose. I say I don t win, Trump reportedly put it to the source recently â a line that sounds like it could be right from
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, dealing a blow to any lingering hopes Donald Trump may have had of reversing his election defeat.
“The Electoral College has spoken,” the powerful senator from Kentucky said in a speech on the Senate floor. “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
McConnell also congratulated California Senator Kamala Harris on her election as Vice President.
“Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female Vice President-elect for the first time,” McConnell said.
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Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said Mr. Trump, who already tested positive for the virus, and Vice President Mike Pence should receive the vaccine.
“You still want to protect people who are very important to our country right now,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America. “To be doubly sure, I would recommend that he get vaccinated as well as the vice president.”
Mr. Trump said Sunday that he’s not scheduled to take the vaccine but that he looks forward to doing so when it’s appropriate.
Mr. Biden has said he would lean on Dr. Fauci, who he named as a chief medical adviser, for advice on when to take a vaccine.