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Former President Trump’s combative relationships with multiple state leaders led to significant breakdowns in state and federal coordination, exacerbating the problems created by the administration’s hands-off approach.
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We received documents from Illinois, Washington state, and Wisconsin that showed state officials struggled to coordinate with the White House and federal agencies in the spring of 2020, when states were in desperate need of PPE and medical supplies.
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During these early months, congressional delegations from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin wrote to health agencies and the White House requesting assistance in filling their states' PPE requests.
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Coordination problems extended into the fall and winter, when states struggled to keep up with changing federal messaging about vaccine distribution and were left out of the loop about key information regarding vaccines.

We received documents from Nevada that showed officials’ confusion about vaccine distribution guidelines that the Trump administration issued in the summer and early fall of 2020.
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