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May 17, 2021 02:23 AM EDT
In a recently published article in POLITICO, more than $2 billion funds from the Health and Human Services meant to address the country s Strategic National Stockpile and COVID-19 testing will be diverted.
Health and Human Services Diverted Some Funds
The report said that around $850 million from the emergency stockpile while another $850 million from the expansion of COVID-19 testing would be diverted to cover the health cost of migrants, most especially the unaccompanied children at the Southern Border.
An unprecedented financial toll caused by sheltering more than 20,000 unaccompanied children has taken on the department so far this year. According to a published report in Yahoo News, it struggled to open emergency shelters and add personnel and facilities across the country, as outlined to congressional appropriators in notices over the last two months.