Donald M. Payne: “The vast majority of people in our country oppose the Trump administration's cruel policy of jailing immigrant children.…”

“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. ____________________”