{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-op-ed-in-nbc-any-further-delays-in-the-transfer-of-power-will-result-in-americans-continuing-to-pay-the-price-for-trumps-gross-mishandling-of-covid-19-after-he-leaves-office", "Murphy Op-Ed In NBC: Any Further Delays In The Transfer Of Power Will Result In Americans Continuing To Pay The Price For Trump's Gross Mishandling Of COVID-19 After He Leaves OfficeRead More", "2020-11-24", "2020", "2020-11", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Christopher Murphy", "M001169", "www.murphy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Murphy Op-Ed In NBC: Any Further Delays In The Transfer Of Power Will Result In Americans Continuing To Pay The Price For Trump's Gross Mishandling Of COVID-19 After He Leaves Office \n        \n        November 24, 2020\n      \n        \n          WASHINGTONAs the Trump administration\r\nformally begins the presidential transition, three weeks after the presidential\r\nelection, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),a member of the U.S. Senate Health Education, Labor and\r\nPensions (HELP) Committee, this week published anop-ed with NBC Newsexplaining\r\nhow the Trump administration's blockade of essential documents related to the\r\nCOVID-19 pandemic and vaccine distribution hampers the incoming Biden\r\nadministration's readiness to get control of the pandemic and successfully\r\ndistribute a vaccine. President\r\nDonald Trump's refusal to concedeand begin the\r\norderly transition of government is not a laughing matter. With thepandemic raging\r\nout of controland record numbers of people being diagnosed with Covid-19 each\r\nday,a bumpy\r\nhandofffrom one administration to the next will likely get people\r\nkilled, Murphy began. He\r\ncontinued: [W]e're far from out of the wood yet  because it's\r\nentirely possible that Trump's plan is as unworkable as every other plan his\r\nteam has devised for pandemic response. For instance, nine months into this\r\npandemic, health care providers still don't have enough personal protective equipment,because\r\nthe president has been unable to put togethera plan to\r\nproduce and distribute enough PPE. What if his plan for vaccine distribution is\r\njust as miserable as his plan for PPE production?\" We've\r\nseen firsthand how Trump failed to manage the flow of critical supplies to\r\nstates in the early days of the pandemic. But duct tape, garbage bags and\r\ndonation drives won't be able to fix a vaccination plan that undermined by\r\nTrump obstructionism. Come Jan. 20, the Biden administration is going to take\r\nover  whether Trump acknowledges that fact or not. But by refusing to\r\nimmediately share details of the vaccine distribution plan with the incoming\r\nadministration, lives may have already been lost, Murphy concluded. Click here\r\nto read the op-ed in full. ###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-op-ed-in-nbc-any-further-delays-in-the-transfer-of-power-will-result-in-americans-continuing-to-pay-the-price-for-trumps-gross-mishandling-of-covid-19-after-he-leaves-office"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4233069960027933, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}