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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Feds cut $167 million in domestic programs to house, feed illegals for just 1 month

By PAUL BEDARD (@SECRETSBEDARD) • 11/29/16 7:07 PM

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 theCenter 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:

"An average of 255 illegal alien youths were taken into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) every day this month, according to the latest figures the agency provided to Congress. This is the largest number of illegal alien children ever in the care of the federal government. To pay for it, the agency says it will need an additional one or two billion dollars for the next year – above and beyond the $1.2 billion spent in 2016 and proposed for 2017 – depending on how many more arrive. For now, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where ORR resides, is diverting $167 million from other programs to cover the cost of services for these new illegal arrivals through December 9, when the current continuing resolution expires."

The money, she said, pays for "shelters, health care, schooling, recreation, and other services for the new illegal arrivals, who typically were brought to the border by smugglers paid by their parents, who often are living in the United States illegally."

What's more, it will pay for just one month.

Her sources said the following programs are being hit to pay for the illegals, about half of which the government will lose contact with.

— $14 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration, including $4.5 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and $2 million from the Maternal and Child Health program.

— $14 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for contagious disease prevention and treatment and other critical public health programs.

— $72 million from the National Institutes of Health, for research on cancer, diabetes, drug abuse, mental health, infectious diseases and much more.

— $8 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for treatment and prevention programs.

— $8 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

— $39 million from the Children and Families Services Program.

— $4 million from the Aging and Disability Services Programs.

— $3 million from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, including more than $1 million from the Pandemic Influenza and BioShield Fund.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

Trump's Treasury pick promises biggest middle-class tax cut since Reagan

BY NAOMI JAGODA - 11/30/16 10:03 AM EST 885

President-elect Donald Trump is going to ensure that the country gets "the most significant middle-income tax cut since Reagan," Steve Mnuchin, Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, told reporters Wednesday.

Mnuchin said at Trump Tower in New York that Trump's tax plan would be a top priority for the incoming administration, and that it would include lowering both corporate taxes and personal income taxes for the middle class. It would also get companies to repatriate their overseas earnings to the United States and include benefits for child care, he said.

"This is going to be a tremendous boon to the economy," he said.

The last major tax reform overhaul passed under President Reagan in 1986.

The Treasury secretary pick said that the Trump administration's "No. 1 priority" would be the economy and achieving economic growth of 3 to 4 percent. "We believe that's very sustainable," he said.

Another goal for the incoming administration is infrastructure spending.

"We need to make sure that our infrastructure is built for the 21st century," Mnuchin said. He added that the administration would look at "a lot of different things" to pay for it, including public-private partnerships.

He also praised the deal reached by Trump and Carrier to keep about 1,000 jobs in Indiana, calling it "terrific."

Mnuchin, who is a former Goldman Sachs partner and has also invested in the movie business, was asked how his background in the financial and entertainment industries would help him at Treasury. He replied that he's been focused on being a regional banker over the last eight years.

"I know what it takes to make sure that we can make loans to small and mid-market companies, and that's going to be our big focus, making sure we scale back regulation so that we make sure the banks are lending," he said.

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