The Department of Health and Human Services is raiding several of its accounts, including money for Medicare, the Ryan White AIDS/HIV program and those for cancer and flu research to cover a shortfall in housing illegal youths pouring over the border at a rate of 255 a day.
HHS is trying to come up with $167 million to fund the Office of Refugee Resettlement that is accepting the youths, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Policy Director Jessica Vaughan said that insiders have told her that the funding crisis has forced the department to squeeze programs for money.
She just revealed on the CIS website:
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Feds raid Medicare, AIDS and cancer accounts to fund care of illegal youths https://t.co/zp1qzE2s3P pic.twitter.com/JcXe9tUPmw
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 30, 2016
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