Funding for refugee support and medical services would be zeroed out, and a new account would help manage unaccompanied migrant children under a Trump administration budget proposal.
A draft budget document for the Health and Human Services Department, which includes the Office of Refugee Resettlement, proposes to eliminate funding under the Refugee Support Services and Transitional and Medical Services programs. Congress funded those accounts at $307 million and $564 million, respectively, in the latest appropriations cycle.
President Donald Trump is proposing to scrap the programs because “refugees and those entering the United States should not expect government handouts and should ...