The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly increased grants for migrants throughout the Biden-Harris administration between 2020 and 2024. Such funding was allegedly allocated toward cars, home loans, and business startups. The findings come as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal government and cut wasteful spending.
According to reports, the HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) sent approximately $22.6 billion to numerous nonprofits that acted in the interest of migrants entering the United States and claiming asylum. Under former President Joe Biden’s leadership, the amount of noncitizens eligible for ORR funding increased dramatically.
Overall, data indicates that NGOs obtained over $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars to extend services such as “dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for cars, homes, college educations or startups; small-business loans of up to $15,000; loans to repair credit history of up to $1,500; ‘cultural orientation,’ ’emergency housing support,’ legal assistance, and Medicaid care.”
The American Tribune recently reported on similar findings pertaining to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which has been scrutinized for allocating $80 million toward housing migrants in hotels in the New York City area. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to X, writing that she “clawed back” funding given to the “Tren de Aragua Base of Operations” hotel in NYC.
Noem wrote, “I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels. FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer. Mark my words: there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people.”
In other discoveries surrounding federal funding being directed toward NGOs, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin recently shared an update explaining that Democrats had allegedly laundered roughly $20 billion into external financial organizations. These institutions were reportedly managed by Biden administration officials, desperate to deploy funds before Trump took office.
“There will be zero tolerance of any waste and abuse,” Zeldin asserted. “An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were ‘tossing gold bars off the Titanic’, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day, the gold bars were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titanic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”
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He continued, “Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars, shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.”
Zeldin maintained he would restore transparency and accountability. “EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds. We will review every penny that has gone out the door. I will be referring this matter to the Inspector General’s office and will work with the Justice Department as well,” he demanded. “The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.” Watch Zeldin below: