{"id":1913309,"date":"2023-04-11T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-probe-hhs-over-alleged-improper-distribution-of-covid-19-funds\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:19:59","slug":"gop-lawmakers-probe-hhs-over-alleged-improper-distribution-of-covid-19-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-probe-hhs-over-alleged-improper-distribution-of-covid-19-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmakers Probe HHS Over Alleged Improper Distribution of COVID-19 Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fgop-lawmakers-probe-hhs-over-alleged-improper-distribution-of-covid-19-funds%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=1913309&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0411\/6e56c271-7c7b-4a91-86f0-7bdeb1a0396f\/audio.mp3?length=2281005&#038;duration=190\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) are launching an inquiry into the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for allegedly misallocating COVID-19 relief funds that were meant for low-income hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Letter-to-HHS-Becerra-on-COVID-Relief-Hospital-funds.pdf\">PDF<\/a>) addressed to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on April 11, the GOP lawmakers alleged that despite rural hospitals facing bankruptcies, the HHS awarded billions of taxpayer dollars to highly successful hospitals located in wealthy areas. Hence, the committee has requested HHS provide all relevant documents and communications regarding its decision-making process on hospital funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of helping hospitals mostly in need, nearly $17 billion of COVID-19 relief funds went to hospitals with reported profits of more than $53 billion, while $35 billion went to hospitals that reported a loss of almost $130 billion,\u201d the lawmakers stated. \u201cWe request documents and communications to assist the Committee\u2019s oversight of HHS\u2019s administration of COVID-19 relief funds to low-income hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter mentioned that when Congress approved $178 billion in healthcare funds, they directed HHS to allocate a \u201csignificant proportion of the entire fund for providers serving high numbers of low-income patients,\u201d a requirement HHS allegedly failed to meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) have initiated an investigation in response to reports that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) improperly allocated COVID-19 relief funds intended to assist low-income hospitals. In an April 11\u00a0letter\u00a0(pdf) to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1843,"featured_media":1913310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4038,3774,13372,4543,6203,8235,19782,3673,4083],"class_list":["post-1913309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-alleged","tag-covid-19","tag-distribution","tag-funds","tag-gop","tag-hhs","tag-improper","tag-lawmakers","tag-probe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913309","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\/1843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}