Posted on 03/24/2020 8:37:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As Congress crafts a third taxpayer-funded coronavirus aid package totaling more than $1 trillion, it’s a good question to ask where some of our first monies were approved to be spent in this pandemic.
As much as $2.3 billion of the first $8.3 billion in funding falls into the categories of foreign aid, foreign affairs or overseas disease surveillance. Here’s how some of that breaks down:
$435 million for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Programs.
$300 million for “international disaster assistance.”
$300 million for global disease detection and emergency response under the Centers for Disease Control
$200 million more goes to the State Department Foreign Operations Emergency Reserve Fund ·
$264 million for State Department Foreign Affairs for diplomatic response and evacuation over the next two and a half years.
$836 million for the U.S. or global response under the National Institutes of Health.
Here are some other major categories where the monies can be spent under the law:
$20 million for “salaries and expenses” under the federal Disaster Loans Program · $60 million for “salaries and expenses” under FDA. $2.2 billion in emergency money for the CDC, on top of its $7 billion dollar annual budget. $950 million for state and local governments. $100 million for local health centers through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). $3.1 billion for the HHS Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for four years. $300 million for vaccines and medicine, including money to pharmaceutical companies that will own and sell any new products developed.
$300 million for CDC’s Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund.
$250 million for an “Economic Support Fund.”
How will Uncle Sam track all these monies to ensure they are well spent? The emergency response bill includes about $3 million to conduct oversight
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Gotta keep the deep state fat and happy
Just bigger government...It will turn out like Obamas stimulus...
Stimulus for government and the democrats
$2.2 billion in emergency money for the CDC, on top of its $7 billion dollar annual budget.
What the hell do they do with 7 billion...looks like nothing to me
What good is that? Looks like the whole planet gets $$$, but US citizens don’t.
Overseas ... where the virus came from. Isn’t that just wonderful. Could we just please, one time, take our own side? Is that possible?
What do they do with 7 Billion a year? Promote Communism. Destroy the Bill of Rights. LGBT shit.
Sh*t no!
Overseas! Ah, it is the best place for kickbacks for politicians. I do believe it is a system designed for their grift
They really don’t do this job for the American People, you know.
Overseas ... where the virus came from. Isn’t that just wonderful. Could we just please, one time, take our own side? Is that possible?
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Not with a Congress that’s the enemy of the very country it’s supposed to run.
Wtf? What is wrong with our “leaders”?
These ucking a-holes.... Not a dime.....
WHY?????!!!
It’s supposed to be for Americans.
Whadda bunch of BS!!!
We need to make sure the disease is managed in Mexico. They are too physically close to us and they are incompetent.
Uh, no. Given their poor performance with the current crisis they should be rewarded?? I think not!
It’s sad that the Covid-19 bill that the Senate put together had to put in 2.3 billion dollars to try to entice some Democrat senators to vote for it. Even this wasn’t enough as Democrat Sen. Schumer put a hold on it and now the House under Speaker Pelosi has come with billions more to fill out the leftist agenda to wreck America.
Not to mention remittances to Mexico.
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