Lawmakers Call for More Resources for Separated Migrant Children
Source: Roll Call
Murray questions whether HHS can handle the situation
Posted Jun 22, 2018 5:05 AM
Andrew Siddons
@asiddons
Lawmakers and public health groups on Thursday urged the Trump administration to commit more resources to the health needs of the immigrant children who have been separated from their families at the border.
Even as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar visited the Texas-Mexico border with first lady Melania Trump, questions remained about whether the department has adequate funding to handle the situation and how much more might be needed.
Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that funds HHS, said she was troubled by the lack of information from the administration about the children in its care. She also suggested that the border situation was reaching crisis levels that might require Congress to provide more funding.
HHS has also failed to provide estimates of additional funding that will likely be needed to provide adequate care for the children in its custody, Murray said in a letter to Azar.
Read more: https://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/lawmakers-call-for-more-resources-for-migrant-children
relogic
(155 posts)The heartless, incompetence and meager sources permitted for the devastated island was indicative of how the deplorables view the disadvantaged. Im never surprised by now of their abject callousness or ulterior motives. Their champion and his army of haters will insure further suffering by cutting any funding necessary for such calamities. Some are natures fury, others created by repug austerity-it doesnt matter to them.
bucolic_frolic
(43,180 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Good luck with that Michael. You of all people should know that he doesn't pay his bills, why would he pay yours?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Senators have sought admission and were turned away. Congressman what to know what was happening in their district to be summerly dismissed. The press was as usual shunned like lepers and denounced as the enemy of the new "Truth". How was it that Malania were greeted with open arms. The gates magically opened and the Red Carpet was rolled out as the administration's peons knelt in admiration. The crass reporters of Fake News attempted to record the glorious occasion but were met with threats of imprisonment.
People stared and photographers recorded the mysterious message boldly inscribed on Malania's combat jacket: I REALLY DON'T CARE. DO YOU? Some gasped at what appeared to be approval of the separation children, even babes in arms. Others vainly searched for any justified explanation while the Republican base applauded the bold move to insulated their beloved nation from the contamination of what their leader called infestation of vermin.
The mystery of the message she bore was concocted in Washington as a secret code that would prevent anyone disguised as Malania from penetrating the baby prisons. It was carefully encrypted and sent ahead with a messenger who would be the sole person to authorize entry. It was inspired by the most appropriate tale of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" who gained entry into thieves den when he discovered the secret password. That was the meaning of the cryptic message that would confound the enemy and admit only her to the Thieves Den of Stolen Children who were being held as ransom. Meanwhile their cohorts in crime in Washington were using their leverage to force the Democrats into submission to their demands. It was, they had thought a perfect scheme until some in their evil party of schemers rebelled and sought more concessions.
The story will be continued in the next installment. Stay tuned.
Mystery Solved!!!!!
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)All I can say is