{"id":1544995,"date":"2022-07-08T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544995"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:50:12","slug":"the-biden-administration-insisted-it-wouldnt-fund-crack-pipes-a-new-report-shows-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-administration-insisted-it-wouldnt-fund-crack-pipes-a-new-report-shows-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Administration Insisted It Wouldn\u2019t Fund Crack Pipes. A New Report Shows Otherwise."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-biden-administration-insisted-it-wouldnt-fund-crack-pipes-a-new-report-shows-otherwise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration is funding the distribution of crack pipes, according to a report from the\u00a0<i>Daily Caller<\/i>, which indicates that so-called harm reduction facilities that received administration grants are in fact distributing the pipes.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after administration officials insisted taxpayer dollars would not be used for this purpose and described a <em>Washington<\/em> <i>Free Beacon\u00a0<\/i>report on their harm reduction grant program as &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; The <em>Caller<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/07\/harm-reduction-grant-biden-crack-pipes-heroin-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/07\/harm-reduction-grant-biden-crack-pipes-heroin-drugs\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657392125055000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1cbGn-F7f87WvYyWr476tU\">reported<\/a> Friday, however, that it received two smoking kits that contain crack pipes, condoms, and lubricant from the New York Harm Reduction Educators, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/grants\/awards\/2022\/SP-22-001?combine=&#038;items_per_page=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/grants\/awards\/2022\/SP-22-001?combine%3D%26items_per_page%3D100&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657392125055000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2UsniK7UC2LatNcx2jVUEg\">received<\/a> $398,960 in May from the Department of Health and Human Services through its harm reduction grant program.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Caller<\/em> received its crack pipes &#8220;after spending about 10 minutes on paperwork with basic information,&#8221; according to the report. Not only were they given drug paraphernalia: The reporters were invited to smoke on the premises. One employee asked a reporter to use the crack pipe in a supervised room at the harm reduction center, saying the drug paraphernalia could not be used outside the facility because it was too close to a school.<\/p>\n<p>When HHS announced the recipients of its $30 million harm reduction program in May, it included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/grants\/awards\/2022\/SP-22-001?combine=&#038;items_per_page=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/grants\/awards\/2022\/SP-22-001?combine%3D%26items_per_page%3D100&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657392125056000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1pJH-z38CcEdjgtIhtxXgh\">note<\/a> at the top of its grant webpage stating that &#8220;no federal funding is used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to purchase pipes in safer smoking kits.&#8221; The announcement came after the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657392125056000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3ADFV9XNME87S91_0AH8pa\">reported<\/a> in February that the HHS harm reduction program was set to fund the distribution of crack pipes. The White House denounced the story as &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and said smoking kits funded by its program would not include a crack pipe. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657392125056000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2-UVpeY3PQV6GPFhljjvVl\">subsequently<\/a> obtained smoking kits in five East Coast cities that all contained crack pipes.<\/p>\n<p>HHS, in a statement to the <em>Caller<\/em>, claimed the New York Harm Reduction Educators has yet to use the federal funds it received and that its purchases will have to be approved by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as Congress moves to stop the Biden administration from funding crack pipe distribution. The House Appropriations Committee this month voted unanimously to include a provision in the HHS budget that prevents the agency from funding the drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of the funds made available by this Act should be used to purchase, procure, or distribute pipes or similar cylinder objects for smoking or inhaling any controlled substance in schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act,&#8221; the amendment states.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment vote comes one week after the House <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/the-biden-admin-says-it-never-funded-crack-pipes-house-democrats-are-set-to-ban-funding-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/the-biden-admin-says-it-never-funded-crack-pipes-house-democrats-are-set-to-ban-funding-anyway\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1657387748675000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1sDTtmmt3F2DMSW48MyOTD\">passed<\/a> a separate Democrat-sponsored bill that similarly banned the department from funding crack pipes through mental health and substance abuse programs.<\/p>\n<p>The votes signal that President Joe Biden&#8217;s congressional allies no longer believe White House claims that the administration never planned to fund crack pipes. Rep. John Moolenaar (R., Mich.), who sponsored the amendment in the HHS funding package, said he was pleased that Democrats have now joined Republicans to hold Biden accountable for his radical policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While most of the media stopped following the crack pipes story and some outlets tried to suppress it, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> deserves a lot of credit for continuing to shine a light on this issue,&#8221; Moolenaar told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Now even Democrats are recognizing this was an abuse of tax dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is funding the distribution of crack pipes, according to a report from the\u00a0Daily Caller, which indicates that so-called harm reduction facilities that received administration grants are in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}