{"id":398769,"date":"2019-03-09T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-to-divert-millions-from-health-programs-for-migrant-child-detention\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:08:43","slug":"trump-to-divert-millions-from-health-programs-for-migrant-child-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-to-divert-millions-from-health-programs-for-migrant-child-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Divert Millions From Health Programs for Migrant Child Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alzheimer\u2019s patients, lower-income preschool children, and HIV and cancer patients are among the Americans whose needs may go unmet so that the Trump administration can afford to detain thousands of migrant children.<\/p>\n

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar <\/span>told Congress<\/a> <\/span>this week that he plans to divert $385 million from numerous healthcare programs to pay for detention centers across the country where more than <\/span>15,000 young undocumented immigrants <\/a>are currently being held.<\/p>\n

About $286 million will be taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and HHS\u2019s programs for children and families, according to The Hill. Programs including HIV prevention and Head Start are expected to be affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration is once again robbing vital health and human services initiatives in order to pay for their failed policies,\u201d <\/span>said <\/span><\/a>Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) Friday. DeLauro chairs an appropriations subcommittee in the House which deals with healthcare funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis $385 million reallocation takes money away from groundbreaking medical research into HIV\/AIDS, cancer, mental health, as well as from Head Start, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and much more,\u201d the congresswoman added. \u201cWe cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on the President\u2019s manufactured crisis at the border, which is government-sanctioned child abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Azar\u2019s notification came six months after he reallocated <\/span>$446 million<\/a> <\/span>from healthcare programs\u2014including those addressing teen pregnancy prevention, flu vaccine research, and women\u2019s cancer research\u2014for the same reason. <\/p>\n

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That’s almost 1B in HHS funds diverted from real public health emergencies (e.g. overdose) to sink into manufactured ones https:\/\/t.co\/KxXrOTJ4lb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Leo Beletsky (@LeoBeletsky) March 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe public health community is in the midst of responding to a series of crises…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alzheimer\u2019s patients, lower-income preschool children, and HIV and cancer patients are among the Americans whose needs may go unmet so that the Trump administration can afford to detain thousands of migrant children. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told Congress this week that he plans to divert $385 million from numerous healthcare programs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}