Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

The Department of Health and Human Services is raiding several of its accounts, including money for Medicare, the Ryan White AIDS/HIV program and those for cancer and flu research to cover a shortfall in housing illegal youths pouring over the border at a rate of 255 a day.

HHS is trying to come up with $167 million to fund the Office of Refugee Resettlement that is accepting the youths, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.  

Policy Director Jessica Vaughan said that insiders have told her that the funding crisis has forced the department to squeeze programs for money.

She just revealed on the CIS website:

“An average of 255 illegal alien youths were taken into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) every day this month, according to the latest figures the agency provided to Congress. This is the largest number of illegal alien children ever in the care of the federal government. To pay for it, the agency says it will need an additional one or two billion dollars for the next year – above and beyond the $1.2 billion spent in 2016 and proposed for 2017 – depending on how many more arrive. For now, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where ORR resides, is diverting $167 million from other programs to cover the cost of services for these new illegal arrivals through December 9, when the current continuing resolution expires.”

The money, she said, pays for “shelters, health care, schooling, recreation, and other services for the new illegal arrivals, who typically were brought to the border by smugglers paid by their parents, who often are living in the United States illegally.”

What’s more, it will pay for just one month.

Her sources said the following programs are being hit to pay for the illegals, about half of which the government will lose contact with.

— $14 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration, including $4.5 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and $2 million from the Maternal and Child Health program.

— $14 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for contagious disease prevention and treatment and other critical public health programs.

— $72 million from the National Institutes of Health, for research on cancer, diabetes, drug abuse, mental health, infectious diseases and much more.

— $8 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for treatment and prevention programs.

— $8 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

— $39 million from the Children and Families Services Program.

— $4 million from the Aging and Disability Services Programs.

— $3 million from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, including more than $1 million from the Pandemic Influenza and BioShield Fund.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-raid-medicare-aids-cancer-flu-accounts-to-fund-care-of-illegal-youths/article/2608452

2 thoughts on “Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

  1. Of course, the rich bastards who invited them here aren’t picking up this bill; it all has to come from medicaid to kill off some more poor Americans, and make room for the new slaves.

    You’re being KILLED you idiot. It’s a slow, but sure process of denying you the necessities of life, and giving them to those who’ll replace you.

    It’s only a matter of time before some federal agency finds a way to boot you out of your home so it can be given to a wetback, and if you don’t believe me, look at Italy, Sweden, and Germany, where it’s already happening.

    And I told you this would happen many months, if not years ago, but you still sat there on your ass and kept staring into the TV like the brainwashed idiot that you are.

    Now I’m LOOKING FORWARD to seeing you thrown out of your home so it can be given to a wetback. You so pissed me off by being such a useless moron, that I no longer know who’s side I’m on.

    If you insist on being a useless, stupid, cowardly, buffoon, the globalist commies will give you EXACTLY what you deserve, and nothing more…. a bullet in the head, and a place in the mass grave.

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