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White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients listens during a meeting with President Joe Biden's "Investing in America Cabinet," in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, May 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House tells staff to spend as much money as possible ahead of Trump presidency

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin makes a joint statement with Israel Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, after their meeting about Israel's military operation in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. (AP photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

White House orders Cabinet secretaries to notify when they can’t perform duties after Austin illness

By Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Jeff Zients, who has been selected serve as coordinator of the Covid-19 response and counselor to the President, speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, to announce President-elect Joe Biden's health care team. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jeff Zients, former COVID-19 czar, set to replace Ron Klain as Biden chief of staff

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients removes a face mask as he prepares to speak at a press briefing at the White House, April 13, 2021, in Washington. Biden’s COVID-19 coordinator Zients and his deputy Natalie Quillian are leaving the administration next month. The White House announced Thursday that they will be replaced by Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden replaces COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients with high-profile Dr. Ashish K. Jha

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event, Dec. 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio. The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to launch.The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to an order form run by the U.S. Postal Service where Americans can request four at-home tests per residential address. (AP Photo/David Dermer) **FILE**

First COVID-19 tests arrive after website launch; millions of the free tests ordered since Tuesday

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients attends a meeting with President Joe Biden, business leaders and CEOs on the COVID-19 response in the library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

WH COVID-19 team appoints testing czar, explores mask upgrades as it defends virus response

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 10, 2020, file photo, a sign is displayed for the Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) **FILE**

FDA approves J&J and Moderna boosters, mixing vaccines

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 28, 2021, photo, Mayra Navarrete, 13, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse, Noleen Nobleza at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, Calif. With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they're confident both seniors and other vulnerable Americans seeking booster shots and parents anticipating approval of initial shots for young children will have easy access. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

WH touts plan to get kids ages 5 to 11 vaccinated for COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A health care worker stands at the door of a mobile vaccination van parked on a street corner in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. As part of New York City's ongoing efforts to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccine citywide, NYC Test &amp; Trace Corps added mobile vaccination to its community vaccine clinic program on Monday, launching this clinic-on-wheels with partner Mixteca, a community organization serving the Spanish-speaking and indigenous population in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) **FILE**

U.S. COVID-19 coordinator says ‘door-to-door’ effort has been misconstrued

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this March 19, 2021, photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leads President Joe Biden into the room for a COVID-19 briefing at the headquarters for the CDC Atlanta. Walensky is making an impassioned plea to Americans not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19. She warned on March 29 of a potential “fourth wave” of the virus. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Next slide, please: Inside wonky White House virus briefings

By NANCY BENAC and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

A Red Cross volunteer prepares the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in a vaccination center of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, southwestern France, Friday, March19, 2021. Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to ending the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

White House confirms ‘loan’ of 4M AstraZeneca doses to Mexico, Canada

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 27, 2021, image from video, Jeff Zients, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president., Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of the COVID-19 health equity task force, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team,, appear on screen during a White House briefing on the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. President Joe Biden’s team is styling itself on war footing as it attacks the coronavirus pandemic. Top aides say the administration is using every “tool the federal government has to battle on every front.” (White House via AP)

‘Overwhelm the problem’: Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19

By ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

In this March 17, 2020, file photo, Pharmacist Evelyn Kim, wears a mask and gloves at the CVS pharmacy at Target in the Tenleytown area of Washington. The Biden administration will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies, including CVS, part of its plan to ramp up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are starting to appear. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Biden boosting vaccine allotments, financing for virus costs

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

The choice of Jeff Zients to oversee fixes to the HealthCare.gov website is seen as a sign that President Obama is losing confidence in Health and Human Services' Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ability to fix the website after its error-filled debut. (Associated Press)

Obama chooses ex-budget chief Zients to oversee HealthCare.gov repairs

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times