WH senior adviser Richmond: Biden is 'in the loop' on money to illegal immigrants, despite conflicting remarks
Cedric Richmond claimed that Biden is informed, but the DOJ will make its own decisions
Ronn Blitzer
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News
White House Senior Adviser Cedric Richmond would not confirm nor deny that the Biden administration would be making payments to illegal immigrants who were separated from their children under the Trump administration, but insisted that President Biden is up to speed on the situation despite seemingly contradictory comments on the subject.
On Wednesday, Biden had denied that a report about possible $450,000 payments to people separated from their families was real, leading the ACLU to claim that he "may not have been fully briefed" about what the Department of Justice was doing. On Saturday, the president came out in support of payments.
"The president’s in the loop," Richmond told "Fox News Sunday," noting that Biden said all along that his Justice Department would be independent.
Biden's claim that the payments were not real came in response to a question from Fox News' Peter Doocy, who asked whether they would incentivize illegal immigration.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wh-senior-adviser-richmond-payments-to-illegal-immigrants-separated-from-children-will-be-up-to-doj
