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Trump's HHS diverting funds from NIH, CDC to pay for increased number of migrant children.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reallocating more than $260 million in funds this year to house the increased number of detained migrant children.
According to a letter from HHS Secretary Alex Azar obtained by The Hill and first reported by Yahoo News, nearly $80 million of that funding will be diverted from other refugee support programs, leaving more than $180 million coming from other programs within the department
Those diversions include $13 million from the National Cancer Institute, $5.7 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, and millions from programs within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report, which deals with funding for the current fiscal year ending at the end of this month, comes amid heightened scrutiny over the Trump administration’s handling of immigrant families and children.
The New York Times reported last week that the number of detained migrant children in the U.S. has skyrocketed under President Trump, from 2,400 in May 2017 to a record-high 12,800 earlier this month. Yahoo News, citing data from HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, reported that there were 13,312 migrant children in federal custody as of Wednesday.
According to a letter from HHS Secretary Alex Azar obtained by The Hill and first reported by Yahoo News, nearly $80 million of that funding will be diverted from other refugee support programs, leaving more than $180 million coming from other programs within the department
Those diversions include $13 million from the National Cancer Institute, $5.7 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, and millions from programs within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The report, which deals with funding for the current fiscal year ending at the end of this month, comes amid heightened scrutiny over the Trump administration’s handling of immigrant families and children.
The New York Times reported last week that the number of detained migrant children in the U.S. has skyrocketed under President Trump, from 2,400 in May 2017 to a record-high 12,800 earlier this month. Yahoo News, citing data from HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, reported that there were 13,312 migrant children in federal custody as of Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/latino/407546-trump-health-dept-diverting-funds-from-nih-cdc-to-pay-for-increased-number-of-migrant