Ted Cruz and the Texas GOP delegation is calling out Obama for publicly blaming Republicans on Zika funding while keeping secret just how much of the money he promised to the cause has been spent.
Today the entire #Texas GOP delegation sent a letter to @POTUS demanding answers on Anti-Zika Funding pic.twitter.com/oEzXlEoeLr
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) August 5, 2016
Chris Pandolfo explains at the Conservative Review:
In a letter to the president, the delegation writes that “On April 6, 2016, your Administration used existing legal authorities to repurpose $589 million of available funds for Zika response activities. However, many news outlets are now reporting that nearly $400 million of this funding remains unspent.”
The Obama administration indeed repurposed $589 million from its administrative budget, including $510 million appropriated to fight Ebola, towards fighting the Zika virus. But a report from earlier this week suggested that the administration has still not spent $385 million of those funds.
The Republican Texas delegation is demanding to know: Exactly how much of the $589 million has been spent by the Obama administration thus far to fight Zika? To what agencies have those funds been allocated? How much of this funding does the Obama administration intend to spend on anti-Zika activities? And when are they going to spend it?
Of course he blames Republicans and then takes off to vacation while more and more cases of Zika pop up all over America. And if it gets worse enough then he’ll blame Republicans some more and the media will help him while Americans suffer because of government incompetence…