Baltimore Flush With Federal Cash, Can’t Tell Where It All Went

epoch times ^ | 8/5/2019 | BRIAN CATES

[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.

[GOPJ]

It will never happen. The FBI is not interested in dealing with the massive theft of Government funds in Black inner city neighborhoods. They are only interested in removing President Trump from Office.

The FBI is the thug arm of the democrat party. They helped democrats when democrats ran the racist Jim Crow South. And they help democrats in these days when the new target is Conservatives. Not pretty...

Obviously the FBI should be disbanded and a real police organization should replace them - but it's not gonna happen soon.

So in the meantime some of the honest people in the FBI who don't kiss democrat butt or work to overthrow free elections - can look into the theft of billions of dollars that gets "lost" in places like Baltimore.

Besides it'll put FBI corruption under a softer light if they can pretend to be unbiased and care about crime more than the party involved in the crime.

[justa-hairyape]

It is quite the racket. Take the money for the poor, siphon off most of it as fun money, then the poor situation never gets fixed. Ask for more money.

[PraiseTheLord]

Audit both the City of Baltimore and Elijah Cummings.

Make the results public.
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I remember reading on FR fairly recently that the FBI raided offices of Baltimore Gov -— this past April.

Soooo some people knew some things as this started down - -