The Biden administration has pulled more than $ 2 billion from Congress-authorized programs for COVID-19 testing, emergency medical supplies and other health needs – and is spending it on shelters for 45,000 unaccounted migrant children, which this year There have been floods on the US border. .
The Department of Health and Human Services embezzled $ 850 million of the funds allocated for the trial in President Biden’s massive $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, POLITICO reported on Saturday.
According to HHS spokesman Mark Weber, Secretary Xavier Becerra asked 850 from a fund to replenish strategic national reserves of items such as medical gloves, masks, antibiotics and ventilators, and to offset $ 436 million from other health programs. Withdraw more million dollars.
Such transfers are legal, as long as Congress is notified.
In total, $ 2.13 billion has been poured into emergency shelters near the US-Mexico border, where children are locked up in prison-like “pods” that allow for no social disturbances.
The report came only a few days after Becerra appeared before the Congress Committee. Request for another $ 905 million To pump in pandemic-free reserves.
News of the cash diversion had Republicans – who have blamed the spiraling border crisis on Biden’s executive orders to roll back President Trump’s strict immigration policies – fuming.
“The president single-handedly created this crisis and is now misappropriating billions in taxpayer money,” Representative Nicole Mallotakis (R-NY) told The Post.
“The answer to every problem is not to throw money at him,” said Malliotakis, who agitated Biden after going to the border in April. “In this case, it’s only canceling their executive order, restoring President Trump’s border protocol, and going after cartels and smugglers.”
In recent weeks, a Texas nonprofit won two HHS no-bid contracts for approximately $ 620 million to provide “emergency intake” services for migrant children soon after hiring a former associate of Biden.
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