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Of a tough hearing today. >> i'm at the end of my rope. i think you'll see today most of my colleagues are as well. >> susan collins says congress allocated $83 billion for testing, but the testing deficit remain as mystery. >> our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the southern border. >> collins says the administration could have averted the testing crisis with better planning. republicans aren't the only ones upset. patty murray said the informat...

>> bret: oh, joy. morgan, this is susan collins from maine particularly trying track down the money. >> our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the al low occasion for the stockpile were, instead, used to deal with the crisis at the southern border. i think that this is a problem that has contributed to the shortage of testing. >> bret: yeah. and you have got $1.9 trillion that was pass in the covid relief bill. tracking down where all that money goes when you have chicago saying, you know, the public teachers union saying we ...

The testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile. >> i will be anticipate to take that back and discuss that with our finance teams. >> yesterday lawmakers on the hill grilled members of the coronavirus response team on everything from muddled guidance on testing, isolation and quarantine rules to masking guidance and masks and test scarcity. some of the questions turned political and personal like this hot mic moment with faufrpy and senator marshall. >> my financial disclosure is public knowledge. >> where would we find it? >> ask for it. you are so misinfo...

With testing shortages, senator collins wants to know why massive amounts of covid funding were averted to another biden crisis. take a listen. >> staff investigation found 850 million dollars out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the southern border. >> todd: gop house committee reporting diverted funding was used for emergency housing for illegal immigrant says. >> carley: 50,000 illegal immigrants were told to report to ice this year, have disappeared according to new homeland security data. dh...

Co-morbidities people very sick already are dying of covid. bret. >> bret: i asked the broader stats and she did not have that stat as of yet. peter doocy live on the north lawn, thanks. republican senator is accusing the biden administration of using taxpayer money intended to provide covid-19 tests to deal with the southern border crisis, instead. this comes as the country endures a critical shortage of those tests. dr. rochelle walensky and dr. anthony fauci appeared on capitol hill today to answer questions about the lack of tests available and confusing messages on health policy. congress...