Backlash Ensues After Pence Reportedly Takes Holiday Trip To Vail With 50 Secret Service Agents Amid Pandemic As Americans Continue To Die

This is appalling.


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As COVID-19 relief remains hanging in the balance, millions of Americans out of work will lose their unemployment benefits Saturday, and the United States is left without a leader at the helm as the outgoing president spent the Christmas holiday on the golf course with the bipartisan stimulus package awaiting his signature. Over three hundred and thirty thousand Americans have died from the coronavirus, and many in this country can’t put food on the table.

While Donald Trump tweets from his Mar-a-Lago resort, vice-president Mike Pence made holiday plans, bringing nearly fifty Secret Service agents with him who have booked rooms at the Grand Hyatt Vail and other locations around Vail Valley, Colorado, and ski instructors at Beaver Creek Resort were booked as well, according to CBS Denver.

In November, it was reported that 130 Secret Service Agents that protect the White House contracted COVID-19, so it would be nice if Pence weren’t so careless with their lives.

State Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Democrat who represents Eagle County in District 5, took the super-spreading vice-president to task on Twitter.

Others were outraged, too.

Food banks are being hammered while Americans struggle through multiple national crises, and Pence is taking a ski trip. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is attempting to pull off an autogolpe as his vice president takes to the slopes.

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