{"id":514252,"date":"2021-05-16T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=514252"},"modified":"2021-05-16T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T15:36:03","slug":"hhs-diverting-2-billion-from-covid-19-relief-to-cover-cost-of-housing-thousands-of-child-migrants-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hhs-diverting-2-billion-from-covid-19-relief-to-cover-cost-of-housing-thousands-of-child-migrants-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Diverting $2 Billion From COVID-19 Relief To Cover Cost Of Housing Thousands Of Child Migrants At Border"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fhhs-diverting-2-billion-from-covid-19-relief-to-cover-cost-of-housing-thousands-of-child-migrants-at-border%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=514252&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232467101.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Health and Human Services Department diverted more than $2 billion meant for COVID-19 relief to the cost of caring for thousands of child migrants who have come across the southern border as the White House continues to struggle to get a border crisis under control.<\/p>\n<p>The money, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/15\/hhs-covid-stockpile-money-border-migrants-488427\">Politico reported Sunday<\/a>, comes from a fund meant to replenish the \u00a0Strategic National Stockpile with personal protective and other medical equipment, and from a \u201cpot intended to expand coronavirus testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Health and Human Services has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children, as the Biden administration grapples with a record influx of migrants on the southern border,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\">\u201cThe redirected funds include $850 million that Congress originally allocated to rebuild the nation\u2019s Strategic National Stockpile, the emergency medical reserve strained by the Covid-19 response,\u201d according to Politico. \u201cAnother $850 million is being taken from a pot intended to help expand coronavirus testing, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration praised itself last week for shifting tens of thousands of unaccompanied child migrants out of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody but largely failed to acknowledge that only a few hundred of those children were reunited with family members and guardians in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-biden-admin-still-holding-tens-of-thousands-of-migrant-kids-with-little-oversight\">As the Daily Wire reported<\/a>, most of the 20,000 child migrants simply shifted to Heath and Human Services custody, meaning that the Biden administration is still housing \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of migrant kids, in some cases, with \u201clittle oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-biden-admin-still-holding-tens-of-thousands-of-migrant-kids-with-little-oversight\">Associated Press reported last week<\/a> that thousands of children, \u201cfrom toddlers to teens\u201d remain in U.S. custody, in a network of shelters across the country, many of which are escaping scrutiny. The shelters are, the AP noted, staffed, in some cases, by people who have escaped having to pass an FBI background check, and the children \u201caren\u2019t guaranteed access to education, recreational opportunities, or legal counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around 17,000 children are being held in \u201cmass shelters\u201d and immigration activists are concerned that many of the kids are \u201cisolated, less supervised, and without basic services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $2.13 billion that the Biden administration redirected from COVID-19 relief, Politico added, \u201cexceeds the government\u2019s annual budget for the unaccompanied children program in each of the last two fiscal years,\u201d and it is \u201cfar above the roughly half-billion dollars that the Trump administration shifted in 2018 toward sheltering a migrant child population that had swelled as a result of its strict immigration policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time it is diverting funds from the Strategic National Stockpile, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has been petitioning Congress for an additional $905 million for the SNS on the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic could spike again. The Biden administration has not asked Congress to provide any emergency funding for the child migrant crisis, likely because the White House has tried to remain mum on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Health and Human Services Department diverted more than $2 billion meant for COVID-19 relief to the cost of caring for thousands of child migrants who have come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232467101.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"HHS Diverting $2 Billion From COVID-19 Relief To Cover Cost Of Housing Thousands Of Child Migrants At Border","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232467101.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"HHS Diverting $2 Billion From COVID-19 Relief To Cover Cost Of Housing Thousands Of Child Migrants At Border","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514252","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}