[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 117 (Thursday, July 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 OPPOSING ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO ROB RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM FUNDS

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, the vast majority of people in our country 
oppose the Trump administration's cruel policy of jailing immigrant 
children. This administration is rotten to the core.
  Just yesterday, news broke that the Department of Health and Human 
Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for possibly 
another surge of families to separate. They are planning for the 
possible detention of thousands more children, even though the office 
doesn't have enough money to take care of these children.
  So what is the administration's plan for covering the cost of jailing 
children? According to internal documents obtained by reporters, HHS 
plans to pay for the child separation by robbing funds from the Ryan 
White HIV/AIDS Program. In fact, HHS is already moving money out of the 
Ryan White program.
  Mr. Speaker, this administration is wicked. Stealing from the 
underinsured and the uninsured people living with HIV in order to put 
children in jail is outrageous. Congress needs to step up and protect 
the Ryan White program and end child detention.

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