If you haven’t read our previous story on BidenPipes™ —check it out.
Here’s a quick recap: “[A] $30 million grant program…will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts,” the Washington Free Beacon reports. “Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, are funds for ‘smoking kits/supplies’…these kits will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, and “any illicit substance.”
After the blowback for this ridiculous program, the White House is doing damage control. Essentially, the Biden Administration is both denying the crack pipes would be included in the “safe smoking kits,” while also admitting they don’t really know what’s in them.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, who’s been doggedly covering this story, after publication of a report, “[the] HHS backtracked in a Tuesday statement that labeled the story ‘blatant misinformation.’ When asked to explain what part of the story was incorrect, a spokesman said the story is ‘misleading and misinformed’ but declined to provide any information to refute the report.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says crack pipes were “never a part of the kit.” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says he’s is “focused on using our resources smartly to reduce harm and save lives….Accordingly, no federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits.”
But an HHS spokesman told WFB that it “does not specify the kits’ elements…only the parameters.”
So they don’t know what’s in the kit?
Here’s why crack pipes, in all likelihood, were going to be part of the kits until the blowback from a few common sense media outlets: previous “smoking kit” programs included crack pipes.
“Existing smoking kit programs in cities such as Annapolis, Md., New Haven, Conn., San Francisco, Calif., and Seattle, Wash., all include smoking pipes,” WFB reports.
So the Biden White House won’t tell us what the misleading information was; they can’t tell us what’s going to be in the kits; and they won’t acknowledge that crack pipes were standard in previous iterations of this program.
Sounds like they were going to hand out crack pipes until people got mad, no?
