As Clinics Collapse, a Rift in Trust Trump’S Camp Sunday, with Prospect of a Reprieve
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ABCDE Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. SU V1 V2 V3 V4 Cloudy, rain 36/33 • Tomorrow: Morning rain, breezy 53/26 B8 Democracy Dies in Darkness MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2021 . $2 Many GOP Acquittal o∞cials see Inside the rise and swift downfall of P hiladelphia’s mass vaccination start-up virus relief widens as a lifeline divide Mayors, governors say in GOP Biden’s proposal i s vital to blunt economic pain FACTIONS SPLIT O N PATH FORWARD BY GRIFF WITTE Graham sees Trump as the ‘most potent force’ The pandemic has not been kind to Fresno, the poorest major city in California. The unemploy- BY AMY B WANG ment rate spiked above 10 per- cent and has stubbornly re- One day after the Senate ac- mained there. Violent crime has quitted former president Donald surged, as has homelessness. Tax Trump in his second impeach- revenue has plummeted as busi- ment trial, Republicans contin- nesses have shuttered. Lines at ued to diverge in what the future food banks are filled with first- of their party should be, with a timers. chasm widening between those But as bad as it’s been, things who want nothing to do with the could soon get worse: Having former president and those who frozen hundreds of jobs last year, openly embrace him. The divi- the city is now being forced to sion is playing out as Trump consider laying off 250 people, promises a return to politics and including police and firefighters, as both factions within the GOP to close a $31 million budget vow they will prevail in the 2022 shortfall. midterm elections. “That,” said Jerry Dyer, mayor Meanwhile, the backlash be- of the half-million-strong city in gan against the seven Republi- the Central Valley, “is going to be can senators who crossed the devastating.” RACHEL WISNIEWSKI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST aisle Saturday to vote with Dem- The looming cuts explain why ocrats to convict Trump on a Dyer’s eyes are fixed on Washing- charge of incitement of insurrec- ton, where President Biden’s tion. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief (R-S.C.) planted his flag firmly in plan dangles the tantalizing As clinics collapse, a rift in trust Trump’s camp Sunday, with prospect of a reprieve. Though harsh words for his Republican Dyer is a Republican, he’s rooting colleagues — as well as his party for the president to successfully BY FRANCES STEAD SELLERS ing them swiftly through private im- shuttered the vaccination clinics. Offi- leader. push through federal aid that, munization pods. cials said they had lost trust in the Senate Minority Leader Mitch after a nightmarish year for Fres- philadelphia — This city’s first “It was like the checkout at the group, citing concerns that changes in McConnell (R-Ky.) voted to ac- no, will “help get us to the end.” mass vaccination site looked like a supermarket,” said Tonya Warden, 51, its data policy might allow personal quit the former president — then The first-term mayor’s stance model of 21st-century efficiency. Run who went to get her shot with a co- information to be sold. followed his “not guilty” vote reflects a broader split, one that by a neuroscience graduate student worker. “Really fast.” Residents were beset with confu- with a lengthy floor speech about SEE CITIES ON A7 who spoke of creating a blueprint for But after Philadelphia’s health de- sion about where to get their shots as SEE TRUMP ON A4 high-volume clinics across the coun- partment learned that Philly Fighting an automated system sent out remind- try, the innovative operation deliv- Covid, established in April as a non- ers for appointments that have since ered coronavirus shots to almost profit, had launched a for-profit com- been canceled. One senior health offi- Biden moves 7,000 people in just five days, usher- pany in December, the city abruptly SEE VACCINES ON A8 DHS shifting Philly Fighting Covid ran a mass vaccination site at the Pennsylvania Convention Center that was abruptly to hard part shuttered after the group made changes, including to its nonprofit status, without informing the city. focus to of reversing threats from Trump legacy within U.S. The loneliness of an interrupted adolescence BY ANNIE LINSKEY BY NICK MIROFF President Biden launched his Traditional rough patches of teenage-dom are made rougher by an unprecedented public health crisis On a Saturday morning in Au- administration with nearly 50 gust 2019, a 21-year-old White executive actions, variously de- BY ELLEN MCCARTHY man with ear protectors, safety scribed in the media as “a bar- glasses and an AK-47-style rifle rage,” “a blitz” and “a burst.” The caller was 17, female and walked into a crowded Walmart If the public was struck by the speaking barely above a whisper. in El Paso, h is pockets bulging sheer number of orders, however, “Lately I’ve been mad all day,” with ammunition. He had driven the team that spent more than six she said on a Friday night in late hundreds of miles across Texas, months planning them struggled November. “Mad for no reason. prosecutors say, because he want- with the opposite problem: re- Little things make me mad. I’m ed to kill Latinos. sisting the temptation to craft angry for no reason. I don’t k now Kevin McAleenan, the acting even more orders and reverse if it’s covid . .” homeland security secretary, was larger chunks of former president In a b edroom on the other side at a Coast Guard picnic in Vir- Donald Trump’s agenda. of the country, a long-haired ginia that day, and soon the ur- Biden’s staff even had a motto: 16-year-old volunteer for a teen gent messages began arriving. A Don’t try to boil the ocean. “You crisis hotline listened through sinking feeling of horror set in as can’t try to do all of the things,” headphones and nodded. “That the magnitude of the attack be- explained Cecilia Muñoz, a senior must be such a strange feeling,” came clear. “It was devastating,” transition official who oversaw she said. he said. the domestic executive actions. “A “I cut myself once,” the caller Twenty-three people were transition’s job isn’t to do every- continued. “Four days ago, may- killed i n the worst attack on His- thing. That’s the administration’s be. Just to feel something differ- panic Americans in modern U.S. job.” ent.” history. But now that Biden has un- “Is that something you think About 5,000 U.S. Customs and done the most easily reversible you might do again?” the volun- Border Protection employees live Trump policies, the hard part teer asked. in El Paso, and six lost family begins — especially after the im- “I definitely don’t want people members that day. “To have an peachment trial hampered early to see me as crazy,” the caller individual attack us, at one of the Senate action. While liberals are said. “But if I could do it in a home bases of our agency and pushing Biden to do more, goals place that no one would see it — specifically going after Hispanic such as expanding health care yeah, I would.” ALYSON ALIANO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Americans who make up a SEE BIDEN ON A6 SEE TEENS ON A12 Abi Raderman, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, works as a volunteer for teen crisis hotline Teen Line. SEE EXTREMISM ON A15 In the News THE WEEK AHEAD ary are expected to rise Inside by 1 percent. 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