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President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, which launched in 2020 after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraged a public-private partnership with pharmaceutical companies to develop, manufacture and distribute a vaccine in record time.

The initiative received bipartisan praise, and has since been widely cited as an example of government acting quickly in the face of a crisis.

Five years later, the Trump administration hopes to lean on a similar playbook to rapidly renovate Penn Station after ye

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