Posted on 08/05/2019 9:02:39 PM PDT by bitt
Adding to the barrage of criticism of prominent Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), President Donald Trump recently said “billions and billions” in federal assistance to the city has been “stolen.”
Plenty of federal dollars flow to Baltimore every year, but what happens to all of it is hard to determine, since the city has long had a problem tracking its dollars.
“What Elijah Cummings should do is, he should take his [House] Oversight Committee, bring them down to Baltimore, and invest all of them and really study the billions and billions of dollars that’s been stolen,” Trump told reporters upon his departure from the White House on July 30.
He suggested the same should be done for “other Democratic-run cities.”
Plenty of Cash
In 2018 alone, $16 billion in federal money went to Cummings’s 7th Congressional District, said Lynne Patton, regional director for Housing and Urban Development, during a July 30 Fox News interview. The district includes West Baltimore, parts of the city’s north and downtown, as well as some surrounding towns and suburbs.
A large chunk of that sum (more than $7 billion) went to Medicaid and CHIP, subsidized healthcare for children and the poor, according to USASpending.gov. Although the funds went to an agency based in Cummings’s district, it appears that it’s the allocation for the entire state. About 20 percent of the money would have been slated for the city, based on 2014 Medicaid enrollment data (pdf).
Excluding Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and disability payments, the city received about $5 billion in federal funds in 2018.
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Flush, indeed. That’s what they figuratively did with the cash.
I want my money back.
This is my shocked face
Can you say DIM criminals ? That’s where it went.
You didn’t think crack and hookers were free did you?
The crooked pols think that’s what “stimulus” means.
That is a little over $10,000.00 for every citizen of Baltimore. Every public housing apartment could be remodeled and every building could have central air and new furnaces. You could also supply a new fridge and stove in every unit as well.
*guffaw*
Never mind I was looking at the lower Medicaid number. That would be close to $22,000 per citizen.
Overseas bank accounts would be my guess.
I was just about to post that! Make that I want my money back with interest.
look for use of funds go boost teacher and other public employee pay and benefits and cummings cronies to get rich administering the programs.
BTW Fox said today the funds being administered by DiBalsio’s wife have now exceeded 1 billion with no accountability. Where is the US attorney and trump on tis?
-PJ
Woah!!!!!...that kind of oversight would not be in their “purview”
Epoch puts LA Slime, Washington Compost, and The NY Slime to shame. Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.
Same here:
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