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HHS Diverting $2 Billion From COVID-19 Relief To Cover Cost Of Housing Thousands Of Child Migrants At Border

Emily Zanotti
HHS Diverting $2 Billion From COVID-19 Relief To Cover Cost Of Housing Thousands Of Child Migrants At Border
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The Biden administration’s 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.

The money, Politico reported Sunday, comes from a fund meant to replenish the Strategic National Stockpile with personal protective and other medical equipment and from a “pot intended to expand coronavirus testing.”

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