Posted on 02/12/2025 7:06:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Joe Biden’s border policies were a boon for private religious charities associated with the Catholic Church, which collectively received billions in grant money while helping house and resettle migrants, while a federal watchdog warned about mismanaged funds and a potential for fraud.
The funding for these humanitarian programs that came through the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has come under renewed scrutiny by President Trump and his administration, who seek to reverse years of financial incentives for the crisis of border crossings under their predecessor.
Catholic Charities USA, comprised of 168 local member agencies across the United States, is one of the largest private recipients of government funding under several immigration-related programs that critics have said allowed the Biden administration to relocate and shelter migrants in the United States.
According to data from USAspending.gov, Catholic Charities branches across the United States collected over $2 billion in federal grants over the last four years of the Biden administration, primarily through the Department of Health and Human Services which granted about $1.93 billion for programs. Other agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security and Housing and Urban Development also doled out significant—if smaller—sums, about $156 million and $138 million, respectively.
Catholic Charities USA did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News.
Grants to Catholic Charities across the U.S.
Many of Catholic Charities’ local subsidiary offices received a game-changing influx of cash during the Biden administration. The money was allocated for migrant settlement and other services. For many local chapters, these new funds dwarfed the previous grants they had been awarded in previous years.
For example, the endowment associated with Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas experienced a more...
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These Catholic Church charities likely do not operate independent of the church, so Frank knows what is going on.
The Pope spent a lot of time with Biden. Maybe they worked out a deal.
I guess these jerks moved on to bigger things.
Grifters gotta grift.
So this is where my tax money goes.
I’ve heard they get around $4B from USAID for their Re-Population efforts.
BTTT
If they are based in Chicago, they are COMMUNISTS Hell bent on Satan and the destruction of the US.
Giving a whole bunch of taxpayers’ money to his church isn’t going to cut any ice with St. Peter when Biden shows up at The Gate.
Fake pope is all in on human trafficking. Guy is another demented sicko.
Francis is a whore selling the virtue of the Catholic Church to advance his Marxist world view.
it would be great to do an audit on these “charitiable” officers.
Time for churches to start paying their “fair share”. The Pope too. if they’re going to play politics, it time to pay to play.
No, the Biden regime BOUGHT the church to help CREATE the “immigration crisis”.
CC knows how to swindle millions out of the elderly. Never let an elderly family member go on a mission to South America with CC.
I want to “nyah nyah nyah nyah” the Catholics here, except that my denomination (LCMS) did the same, and I am just as ashamed.
DEMOCRAT Resident Joe Biden is a pope-a-dope Francis boy.
Just sayin’
“God, have mercy on me, the sinner!”
I did even worse...
I authored a “memorial” to my (then) ELCA Synod requesting that every congregation budgeted “one month’s rent” for the resettlement of LEGAL refugees.
It passed overwhelmingly.
And my congregation supported it for a decade or sol
“God, have mercy on me, the sinner!”
Bastards.
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