https://news.yahoo.com/gop-outraged-30m-biden-plan-010656419.html
Conservative legislators are outraged by recent reports that a Biden administration drug harm reduction programme may put some of its funds towards safer smoking kits.
On Tuesday, US Senator Marsha Black of Tennessee wrote to the department of Health and Human Services, expressing grave concerns that a $30 million grant programme from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) could include subsidising drug paraphernalia.
"Government-funded drug paraphernalia is a slap in the face to the communities and first responders fighting against drugs flowing into our country from a wide-open southern border," Ms Blackburn wrote in her letter. "If this is the presidents plan to address drug abuse, our nation is in serious trouble."
A description of the programme, reported by The Washington Free Beacon, says funding could go towards smoking kits/supplies. The Beacon added that an HHS spokesperson explained these kits could include pipes that could be used for drugs like crack cocaine.