Posted on 02/09/2022 12:44:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Following outrage on the political right, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.
“No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta said in a statement.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said separately that was never the intention, complaining that impression was created by “inaccurate reporting.”
HHS spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim tweeted that such reports were “blatant misinformation” and Wednesday at the White House briefing Psaki said paying for pipes was never part of the plan.
“They were never a part of the kit,” said Psaki. “It was inaccurate reporting and we wanted to put out information to make that clear.”
Homemade pipes for smoking crack and methamphetamine may break easily or also release toxic fumes. Because of that, safer pipes can be one of the components of safety kits. But those kits also can include other supplies, such as alcohol swabs to clean hands or wipe down a pipe.
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This is going to make a GREAT Bee story.
and the check is in the mail and i love you and i won’t****
Why should Hunter has access to crack pipes and not the disadvantaged?
The liars are backpedaling when they found out how much damage this move did in the polls.
But they’re still going to provide them, right?
So they’re going to use unicorn farts to pay for them?
Not possible unless someone donated a ginormous sum of money.
Who donated?
How dare the Biden Regime deny my right to a free crack pipe!
Everybody needs to smoke crack to enable them to forget the misery the leftist tyranny inevitably results in. Without free crack pipes Americans will be totally lost with a crack rock in one hand and their d*ck in the other.
I thought it was. Had to check the source.
I’m starting to think that BB is actually working for the Biden Admin. Biden goes to BB as a source of what to do next.
BB actually the ‘think tank’ for the Democrats.
“But those kits also can include other supplies, such as alcohol swabs to clean hands or wipe down a pipe.”
I’m glad to see our taxpayer money well spent on keeping people clean and safe WHILE THEY KILL THEMSELVES.
The leaky pipes the down trodden use cause air polution. Biden is so concerned about the environment.
Biden admin $30 million to fund programs that hand out
crack pipes to prevent infection and promote ‘racial equity’
Daily Mail ^ | 02/07/2022 | Phillips
Posted on 2/8/2022, 6:08:45 PM by Phoenix8
President Biden’s Health and Human Services department (HHS) is finalizing funding to dole out crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its ‘Harm Reduction Plan.’
The $30 million grant program, ........ accepted applications until Monday .........will begin doling out money in May.
It intends to provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to make drug use safer........ to advance ‘racial equity.’
Included in the grant is tax money to purchase ‘safe smoking kits/supplies.’
A spokesperson for Xaver Becerra, Biden’s Secy of HHS, told the Washington Free Beacon that included in these kits could be pipes for users to smoke substances like crack cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, or ‘any illicit substance.’
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I believe that as much as I believe that they really aren’t teaching “critical race theory” in schools.
Cost money? {whispering} It will cost ZERO.
Ask biden. His bills cost. Zero. What a guy.
I told a democrat I know about this story & she believed me. She just texted me that the story isn’t true, but Jen Saki lies.
Bull Merd, ALL money comes from the taxpayers, Jimmy! what a load of crud, and running back on an IDIOTIC idea! Bad reporting my tukus!
‘political right’? What?!
AP = Deep state
Why are there no Americans working on this craziness?
“Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta”
Socratic method........nice.
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