Why is SAMHSA still funding COVID relief in 2025?!?!
Yesterday I posted about the article with a misleading headline over vaccine money being cut. But they couldn’t really come up with an actual number. What started out at $255 million dollars cut that “could save the children by giving them more shots” ended up being possibly $1.5 million in *vaccine funding* cut. The article never really said. They were more focused on distracting you with a headline.
So I started digging into funding cuts. SAMHSA does the following:
So can someone tell me why they are funding COVID RELIEF under the heading of “mental health block grant funding”?? It is 2025. What covid relief do we need exactly? These are funds that were still approved for disbursement in 2025. Some had only been partially paid out, others had received nearly all the money already.
Not every state had these funds on the books. Only 16 states plus Puerto Rico, and a few other island territories who were still approved for these funds. Of important note, the states that received these funds, there was no clear designation for who and how the money was spent, it was given under a blanket block grant. How many states in total took this money and they had already taken it all so it didn’t show up on this report for funding cuts?
How much money are we talking here? How much was “granted”? And these are just the ones I highlighted below.
Alabama got $33,586,948
Florida got $105,131,030
Georgia: $80,009,075
Idaho: $4,873,385
Indiana: $45,032,165
Kansas: $6,035,542
Louisiana: $35,432,883
Mississippi: $20,494,774
Nebraska: $10,957,596
New Hampshire: $9,443,931
North Dakota: $1,435,102
Oklahoma: $9,094,136
Puerto Rico: $31,580,633
South Carolina: $12,436,240
Tennessee: $29,971,471
Utah: $15,548,611
Vermont: $1,415,844
West Virginia: $7,904,019
What does that total into?? $460,383,335 for COVID RELIEF. Under the name of mental health block grant funding. IN 2025. Still being doled out. To the department of MENTAL HEALTH. What are they doing with “covid relief” money??
I ask again: what in the hell were they doing with “covid relief” money?? We deserve to know. Covid is over. Why were any of these grants still available for disbursement? When were they originally approved?
See below:
More sinister waste and fraud without receipts.
Could this be hush money?
Certainly it's a slush fund!
And that rhymes with flush, so it's definitely shitty!
Seriously mental.
The money doesn’t end up at the States. It is passed on through grants to NGOs. Many of them “non-profit”. This does not mean that those running the non-profit companies don’t get filthy rich. The company just doesn’t hold any money over from year to year. Any surplus cash is distributed as the director sees fit. It would be most illuminating to see what the States are buying with this money. What services are contracted and what has been delivered. My guess is it is nothing more than graft. Think “Solynra”. I’m sure I misspelled it. The Obama admin paid them millions to produce solar cells in Texas. No factory built. Not a single solar cell produced. Millions of dollars were funneled to the DNC. I suspect this is more of the same.