Biden's HHS diverting millions of funds meant for COVID-19 vaccinations to program for unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border The Department of Health and Human Services will reportedly take millions of dollars designated for COVID-19 vaccination efforts and divert the substantial funds to a program for sheltering unaccompanied migrant children who have entered the U.S. at the southern border.
The HHS will reallocate an additional $589 million to the agency's unaccompanied children program, some of those funds were dedicated to COVID-19 vaccinations, according to Fox News.
"HHS informed Congress that it is diverting $225 million in National Institute of Health (NIH) funding that was part of the December COVID-19 relief bill to the unaccompanied children (UAC) program, as well as $364 million in HHS funding that was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP)," a congressional source told the outlet.
The report noted that $187.5 million was set aside for the Centers for Disease Control for "vaccine planning, distribution, monitoring and tracking" and an additional $25 million for "vaccine confidence activities." There was also $151 million of the diverted funds that were to go to the "Supply Chain for Vaccines, Therapeutics and Medical Supplies."
The HHS claimed that the funds being diverted to the border crisis were not planned for any ongoing vaccine efforts, and had no impact on getting Americans vaccinated................
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hhs-diverting-funds-ant-children-housing"The Unaccompanied Children program has long relied on funding transfers to meet its mission, and this year faces the additional expense of rebuilding a decimated system while taking pandemic-related safety precautions, such as testing and social distancing," an HHS spokesperson told Fox News.
