Amazon ‘ZenBooths’ ‘slap in face’ to stressed warehouse workers told to think happy thoughts

 Amazon has sought to improve the morale of its stressed-out warehouse workers and reduce injuries by setting up so-called “ZenBooths” — interactive kiosks that are billed as “mindful practice rooms,” according to reports.

A warehouse employee at the Seattle-based e-tailing giant founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos leaked a screenshot of a meditation and wellness guide from the company that encourages workers to “close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy.”

The screenshot — which also shows a timer at the top right corner of the screen, saying “Repeat until timer ends” and showing 10 seconds left — was leaked by a worker at one of the company’s fulfillment centers, where pay was recently increased to between $17 and $28 an hour.

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An Amazon employee leaked a screenshot of a meditation practice that the company encourages warehouse workers to undertake.404

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Employees can choose from several guided meditations and mindfulness-based exercises, according to the company.Amazon

Amazon in recent years has come under fire from worker advocates for conditions at warehouses, where some employees have reported that they were forced to urinate in bottles and forgo bathroom breaks because of the breakneck pace and the demands of the job.

“I mean it honestly felt like a slap in the face,” the employee told 404 Media. “It’s the sort of disconnected corporate platitude that is so obviously out of touch with reality.”

The screenshot shows a guide to a practice called “savoring,” which is part of a wellness and meditation regimen that Amazon rolled out in 2021 titled “Working Well,” which was designed to cut down on workplace injuries by improving employees’ state of mind.

The program, also dubbed “AmaZen,” features “physical and mental activities, wellness exercises, and healthy eating support” which are “scientifically proven to help them recharge and reenergize.”

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Amazon employees are encouraged to enter “Mindful Practice Rooms” to improve their mental health.Amazon

“Working Well” includes a special meditation and mindfulness-based section, which the company said “guides employees through mindfulness practices in individual interactive kiosks at buildings.”

During their shifts, warehouse employees “can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow well-being activities, including guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds, and more.”

Leila Brown, an Amazon worker who helped create the ZenBooth as part of the “WorkingWell” program, said in a video that her goal was to “create a space that’s quiet” where “people could go and focus on their mental and emotional well-being.”

Workers who go into the booth sit down near a computer screen and have the option of choosing several mindfulness-based exercises that include guided meditations and calming sounds.

The booths are equipped with a fan, potted plants and a ceiling painted to look like a blue sky.

But the company deleted a promotional video announcing the rollout of the booths after it elicited scathing reaction on social media, where critics noted that Amazon has been accused of subjecting employees to poor workplace conditions and heavy workloads.

Amazon said employees also will receive hourly prompts at their work stations “guiding them through a series of scientifically proven physical and mental activities to help recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury.”

The Post has sought comment from Amazon.

Injury rates at Amazon have typically been higher compared to its peers in the industry, which critics and labor safety experts blame on the company’s fast-paced warehouses that track productivity and allow customers to get their packages quickly.

Last year, a coalition of labor unions released a report that found that Amazon’s injury rate was 70% higher in 2022 compared to non-Amazon warehouses.

The report, which was compiled by the Strategic Organizing Center and examines data Amazon have submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said the company’s injury rate was 6.9% in 2022, compared to 7.9% the year before. In 2020, that number was 6.6%.

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Worker advocates have criticized conditions at Amazon fulfillment centers like the one seen above in Robbinsville, NJ.REUTERS

Amazon released a report last week saying that its “recordable incident rate” — which it described as any work-related injury that requires more than basic first aid treatment — improved in 2023 by 8% compared to the year before and 30% over the past four years.

The company said its “lost time incident rate” — serious work-related injury that requires someone to take time away from work — improved last year by 16% compared to 2022 and 60% over the past four years.

The employee who leaked the video said the meditation guide was out of place because “the lower and middle classes are seeing our financial situations grow tighter and tighter … while the people at the heads of these corporations continue to build their portfolios and disproportionate wealth.”

“We’re getting bled dry as a people, and then I get a pop up at my menial labor job to ‘close my eyes and think of something happy?’ I’ll think of eating the rich then, thanks,” the employee said.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/business/amazon-workers-told-to-close-your-eyes-and-think-happy-thoughts/

Blood donor diets can trigger allergic reactions in blood recipients

 Allergic transfusion reactions (ATRs), a potentially life-threatening side effect of blood transfusions with unclear mechanisms, may be linked to food allergies in pediatric patients as per a recent study by scientists from Japan. They found that ATRs may be triggered by the presence of allergens in the donor's blood, influenced by their pre-donation diet. These findings could pave the way for safer blood transfusions through the development of preventive measures and countermeasures for ATRs.

Blood transfusions are often life-saving procedures in various medical settings. They are required not only after severe blood loss due to surgery or trauma but also as standard treatment for certain blood disorders like anemia and sickle cell disease. However, blood transfusions can have serious side effects, with allergic transfusion reactions (ATRs) being particularly prevalent among children.

Although scientists believe ATRs are caused by immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated type 1 allergy (or "immediate hypersensitivity"), the responsible allergens are not always known.

Against this backdrop, a research team composed of Dr. Ryu Yanagisawa of Shinshu University Hospital, Japan, alongside Dr. Minoru Tozuka and Dr. Yasunori Ito from Nagano Children's Hospital, Japan, set out to find more answers. In their latest study, published online in Allergy, the researchers focused their attention on what might have appeared to be an unlikely suspect.

Dr. Yanagisawa, who led the study at the University's Division of Blood Transfusion, explains, "In our previous study, we found that pediatric patients with food allergies were characteristically more prone to ATRs. Considering that food allergies are also more prevalent in children, we decided to investigate whether the food the donor ate before giving blood could be associated with the development of ATRs in children with food allergies."

Between May 2022 and December 2023, the researchers collected blood samples from over 100 pediatric patients with diagnosed food allergies toward either eggs, wheat, or milk. They also collected blood from two healthy donors before and after substantial ingestion of these food products and extracted the serum.

Shortly after collecting blood from each allergic patient, the researchers conducted basophil activation tests (BATs) by exposing the sample to the corresponding sera. As the name implies, these tests assess the activation of basophils, a particular type of white blood cell that is strongly involved in allergic reactions.

Interestingly, in patients with egg allergy, BAT levels were significantly higher when the blood was exposed to the serum of donors who had ingested eggs. Moreover, serum obtained from blood donor samples collected four hours after egg ingestion resulted in markedly higher BAT levels than those collected two hours after egg ingestion. In contrast, the results for milk and wheat were more varied, with BAT levels only being elevated after exposure to the serum of one of the two donors.

The researchers decided to run BAT tests with sera from sixteen additional donors to gain deeper insights and lend more weight to the results. "Although some differences were observed among donors, blood samples obtained after egg ingestion generally activated basophils in cases of egg allergy with high egg white-specific IgE levels," comments Dr. Yanagisawa. "Similarly, elevated BAT levels in patients with milk and wheat allergies were also associated with allergen-specific IgE levels."

Overall, the evidence obtained through this study strongly suggests that ATRs could be triggered by the food consumed by donors prior to a blood donation. Although further analyses and experiments will be needed to confirm this with more certainty, these efforts constitute a necessary first step toward elucidating the mechanisms underlying ATRs.

"In the future, it could be possible to predict in advance who is likely to suffer from an ATR. Given enough time, preventive measures and countermeasures to ATRs could be developed, leading to safer blood transfusions," concludes Dr. Yanagisawa.

More information: Ryu Yanagisawa et al, Activation of basophils in children with food allergies by blood from donors ingesting the corresponding food, Allergy (2024). DOI: 10.1111/all.16013

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-blood-donor-diets-trigger-allergic.html

Early trial results show 'dramatic and rapid' regression of glioblastoma on next gen CAR-T therapy

 A collaborative project to bring the promise of cell therapy to patients with a deadly form of brain cancer has shown dramatic results among the first patients to receive the novel treatment. In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Mass General Cancer Center have shared the results for the first three patient cases from a phase 1 clinical trial evaluating a new approach to CAR-T therapy for glioblastoma (GBM).

The trial, known as INCIPIENT, is designed to evaluate the safety of CARv3-TEAM-E T cells in patients with recurrent GBM. Just days after a single treatment, patients experienced dramatic reductions in their tumors, with one patient achieving near-complete tumor regression. In time, the researchers observed tumor progression in these patients, but given the strategy's promising preliminary results, the team will pursue strategies to extend the durability of response.

"This is a story of bench-to-bedside therapy, with a novel cell therapy designed in the laboratories of Massachusetts General Hospital and translated for patient use within five years, to meet an urgent need," said Bryan Choi, MD, Ph.D., neurosurgeon and associate director of the Center for Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Cellular Immunotherapy Program, Mass General Cancer Center and Department of Neurosurgery.

"The CAR-T platform has revolutionized how we think about treating patients with cancer, but solid tumors like glioblastoma have remained challenging to treat because not all cancer cells are exactly alike and cells within the tumor vary. Our approach combines two forms of therapy, allowing us to treat glioblastoma in a broader, potentially more effective way."

The new approach is a result of years of collaboration and innovation springing from the lab of Marcela Maus, MD, Ph.D., director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Program at the Mass General Cancer Center, Paula O'Keefe chair in Oncology, and faculty of the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research. Maus's lab has set up a team of collaborating scientists and expert personnel to rapidly bring next generation genetically modified T cells from the bench to clinical trials in patients with cancer.

"We've made an investment in developing the team to enable translation of our innovations in immunotherapy from our lab to the clinic, to transform care for patients with cancer," said Maus. "These results are exciting, but they are also just the beginning—they tell us that we are on the right track in pursuing a therapy that has the potential to change the outlook for this intractable disease. We haven't cured patients yet, but that is our audacious goal."

Studies like this one show the promise of cell therapy for treating incurable conditions. Mass General Brigham's Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, where Maus is Associate Head & Head of Cell Therapies, is helping to translate scientific discoveries made by researchers into first-in-human clinical trials and, ultimately, life-changing treatments for patients. The Institute's multidisciplinary approach sets it apart from others in the space, helping researchers to rapidly advance new therapies and push the technological and clinical boundaries of this new frontier.

CAR-T therapy works by using a patient's own cells to fight cancer—it is known as the most personalized way to treat cancer. A patient's cells are extracted, modified to produce proteins on their surface called chimeric antigen receptors, and then injected back into the body to target the tumor directly. Cells used in this study were manufactured by the Connell and O'Reilly Families Cell Manipulation Core Facility of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

CAR-T therapies have been approved for the treatment of blood cancers but the therapy's use for solid tumors is limited. Solid tumors contain mixed populations of cells, allowing some cancer cells to continue to evade the immune system's detection, even after treatment with CAR-T.

Maus's team is working to overcome this challenge of tumor heterogeneity with an innovative strategy that combines two previously separate strategies: CAR-T and bispecific antibodies, known as T-cell engaging antibody molecules (TEAMs). The version of CAR-TEAM for glioblastoma is designed to be directly injected into a patient's brain.

Maus and colleagues previously developed CAR-T cells to target a common cancer mutation known as EGFRvIII, but when that alone had limited effects, her team engineered these CAR-T cells to deliver TEAMs against wild-type EGFR, which is not detected in normal brain tissue but is expressed in more than 80% of cases of GBM.

The combination approach showed promise in preclinical models of glioblastoma, encouraging the research team to pursue clinical translation. In collaboration with Mass General neurosurgeons and neuro-oncologists, including Elizabeth Gerstner, MD, and William Curry, MD, as well as specialists in cell therapy delivery, Matthew Frigault, MD, and immunotherapy monitoring, Kathleen Gallagher, Ph.D., the team launched INCIPIENT, a non-randomized, open label, single-site Phase 1 study.

Three patients were enrolled in the study between March 2023 and July 2023. Patients' T cells were collected and transformed into the new version of CAR-TEAM cells, which were then infused back into each patient. Patients were monitored for toxicity throughout the duration of the study.

All patients had been treated with standard-of-care radiation and temozolomide chemotherapy and were enrolled in the trial after disease recurrence:

• A 74-year-old man had his tumor regress rapidly, but transiently after a single infusion of the new CAR-TEAM cells. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid from the patient showed a decrease in EGFRvIII and EGFR copy numbers, eventually becoming undetectable.
• A 72-year-old man was treated with a single infusion of CAR-TEAM cells. Two days after receiving CAR-TEAM cells, an MRI showed a decrease in the tumor's size by 18.5%. By day 69, the tumor had decreased by 60.7%, and the response was sustained for over 6 months.
• A 57-year-old woman was treated with CAR-TEAM cells. An MRI five days after a single infusion of CAR-TEAM cells showed near-complete tumor regression.

The patients tolerated the infusions well, though nearly all had fevers and altered mental status soon after infusion, as was expected from an active CAR-T therapy administered into the fluid around the brain. All patients were observed in the hospital before discharge.

The authors note that despite the remarkable responses among the first three patients, they observed eventual tumor progression in all the cases, though in one case, there was no progression for over six months. Progression corresponded in part with the limited persistence of the CAR-TEAM cells over the weeks following infusion. As a next step, the team is considering serial infusions or preconditioning with chemotherapy to prolong the response.

"We report a dramatic and rapid response in these three patients. Our work to date shows signs that we are making progress, but there is more to do," said co-author Elizabeth Gerstner, MD, a neuro-oncologist in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

More information: Rapid Regression of Recurrent Glioblastoma with CARv3-TEAM-E T Cells, New England Journal of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2314390

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-early-clinical-trial-results-rapid.html

Watters: Hur Transcripts Confirm Joe Biden's Diminished Faculties, "Vroom Vroom"

 FNC's Jesse Watters looks at Special Counsel Robert Hur's testimony Tuesday about why he declined to prosecute the president for mishandling classified documents:

JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS: Now, the president's state of mind was the center of attention in Washington today. The Justice Department finally releasing the highly anticipated transcripts of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who testified this morning, and we'll get to that in a minute.

But first, five hours of Biden unscripted. Our producers spent all day reading this and now we understand what Robert Hur meant when he called Biden "painfully slow." The transcripts confirmed that Biden didn't remember when his son died, when he was vice president, or when Trump was elected. Biden had to be reminded multiple times throughout his interview what a fax machine was. And whenever he was redirected to focus on the question at hand, he'd launch into wacky stories weirder than Cornpop.

For instance, when the special counsel asked why he moved classified documents from the Naval Observatory, Biden claimed that he'd won an international torts competition in law school and then shared a story of a 23-year-old who was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans when a spark caught fire and he lost one of his testicles. Biden called himself a frustrated architect who went to Mongolia, where he shot bow and arrows with sumo wrestlers. Biden said he had great aim and put everyone in Mongolia to shame.

At one point, Biden asked special counsel here if he saw, quote, "risqué pictures of my wife in a bathing suit, which you probably did. She's beautiful."

When asked about his classified documents in the garage, Biden bragged he went on Leno with his Corvette and started making car noises. Quote, "all you do is take your foot off the brake and vroom vroom."

Joe Biden complained that the Secret Service was driving him crazy because they wouldn't let him drive, so Biden would drive back and forth in his own driveway. Quote. "I'd get it to the bottom of the driveway, tack it up to about four grand and vroom vroom."

Yeah, the president making more car noises. Now, if you were a prosecutor conducting a deposition, you're asking about highly sensitive national security secrets, and the subject starts revving his engine and pretending to hit the clutch, you know, he's not fit to stand trial. This is why the White House won't release the audio tapes. The president's going "vroom room" and asking, "when was I vice president again?"

Robert Hur had to assess the president's mental state because his mental state would determine whether or not he willfully retained classified documents. What was going on through the president's mind or what wasn't going on through the president's mind was important, and Hur defended it.

ROBERT HUR: My assessment in the report about the relevance of the president's memory was necessary and accurate, and fair. Most importantly, what I wrote is what I believe the evidence shows and what I expect jurors would perceive and believe. I did not sanitize my explanation, nor did I disparage the president unfairly.

JESSE WATTERS: But Democrats didn't want to hear about the president's hazy memory. Jamie Raskin used his time to question your memory.

REP JAMIE RASKIN: My friends, this is a memory test. But it's not a memory test for President Biden. It's a memory test for all of America. Do we remember fascism? Do we remember Nazism? Do you remember communism in totalitarianism? They have one more reason to celebrate, Donald Trump and his cult followers, who have completely lost their way. They're looking for high crimes and misdemeanors, and now they appoint themselves amateur memory specialists, and that's what they pounce on the president of the United States about. America faces a choice between democracy and tyranny.

JESSE WATTERS: So for Democrats, today was about fascists pouncing on Corvette lovers. They tried to rewrite the whole report, but failed.

REP. JERRY NADLER: Do you have any reason to believe that President Biden lied to you?

ROBERT HUR: I do address in my report one response that the president gave to a question that we had posed to him that we deemed to be not credible.

NADLER: Was it clear he didn't lie?

HURl: I'm sorry, congressman.

NADLER: The report is clear that he didn't lie or that he caused his staff to lie to you and that he didn't cause his staff to lie to you. Your report is clear on that.

JESSE WATTERS: No. Democrats even claiming Hur exonerated Biden when he didn't.

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL: So this lengthy, expensive and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of President Joe Biden.

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HUR: I need to go back and make sure that I take note of a word that you used, "exoneration." That is not a word used in the report. That's not my task as a special counsel.

JAYAPAL: I'm going to continue with my question. I'm going to continue with my questions... You exonerated.

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HUR: We did not exonerate the president.

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JESSE WATTERS: Today's testimony proved that Biden for 40 years spread classified documents across three states in six unsecured locations after being warned repeatedly.

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Biden even told hUR his garage was such a mess, He moved boxes around himself so his Corvette had more room. The president admitted there was a kid who used to help me take care of my Corvette, but didn't work for me. So besides, Hunter and his Chinese assistant zipping in and out of Biden's garage, they were kids working on Biden's cars, and Primetime can conclusively report tonight that mysterious mechanics and spies did not, I repeat, did not have full access to Trump's documents in Mar-a-Lago for decades.

Special counsel Robert Hur testified that Biden admitted he knew he had classified documents and that he wanted to keep them for posterity's sake, to burnish his image as a world leader. Hur also testified Biden hoarded classified documents to write a book, a lucrative deal worth $8 million.

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So pride and profit. You have a motive. The misconduct is plain as day, and there was an attempt to cover it up. The same month, Biden opened an investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, he dispatched his team to gather all of the classified documents that he'd been stashing.

Then Biden's team waits a year and a half to announce they'd found classified documents at the Penn Biden Center, an 18-month mop-up job at your house while you raid your opponent's house. That's not cooperating with investigators.

In fact, the second they heard a special counsel had been appointed, Biden's ghostwriter deleted evidence.

MATT GAETZ: The ghostwriter has recordings of Biden making admissions of crimes. He then learns that you've been appointed. He then deletes the information that is the evidence, and you don't charge him.

HUR: That is reflected in the report... One of the things that Mr. Zwonitzer did not delete was transcripts of the recordings that he had created that included inculpatory evidence relating to Mr. Biden.

GAETZ: Oh, so if you if you destroy some evidence, but not other evidence, that somehow absolves you of the evidence you destroy, like, here's what I see. Zwanziger should have been charged, wasn't. Biden and Trump should have been treated equally. They weren't. And that is the double standard that I think a lot of Americans are concerned about.

JESSE WATTERS: In the last three elections, three candidates have been accused of mishandling documents -- Hillary, Biden and Trump. And only one has been charged. The only one who was president with declassification authority. The other two risked national security for pride and profit, got caught, destroyed evidence, and then lost their memories.

But is Biden playing dumb or just dumb?

ROBERT HUR: I would not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that that intent element had been right.

REP. MATT GAETZ: But the reason you have that doubt is the is the "senile cooperator" theory, the fact that Joe Biden is so inept at responding that you can't prove the intent. Which again, I don't quibble with that conclusion, but it's frustrating to be like, oh, well, this guy is not getting treated the same way as Trump because the elevator is not going to the top floor so we can't prove intent, while at the same time, Biden goes out there at the White House and says, well, you know, he just he just he just blatantly lies. And what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not Biden's lying because he's still so senile. He hasn't read your report, or whether it's a little craftier and a little more devious and perhaps a little more intentional than we might otherwise think.

JESSE WATTERS: So prosecutors are claiming Biden's too forgetful to be prosecuted, but Trump's sharp enough to stand trial. That's not how the law works.

GOP REP: We have a former vice president who will not suffer any consequence for all of these actions, all because we say, well, he's a well-meaning, forgetful old man. You know, if you were kind of a well-meaning, forgetful old man that was driving a car and you forgot what you were doing a little bit, and you hit somebody and killed them, I believe you'd be responsible. The law must apply.

JESSE WATTERS: Now, the real reason Hur didn't charge Biden is because he didn't think he'd get a conviction. But it's not why, it's where. Hur didn't think he could get Biden convicted in DC, and that's where the jury would be. Outside of DC, fair jury, sure. But Biden's poor mental state let him escape justice, which is forcing the media to argue that Biden's competent enough to be president but not competent enough to stand trial.

GLORIA BORGER, CNN: You have this image of this poor guy sitting on a park bench, you know, feeding the birds. That's that's not who Joe Biden is.

DAVID URBAN, CNN: He really wasn't carrying their water. I think he's shown the work on the old man sitting on the bench feeding the pigeons.

KAREN FINNEY, CNN: It comes after Joe Biden just had a very successful, effective State of the Union address. So nobody who saw him on that night is going to think of him as Gloria said, a kindly old man sitting on a park bench feeding the, you know, the pigeons.

JESSE WATTERSl: The president sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons is what saved Democrats from nominating Kamala.

The White House, releasing a statement after this hearing today, saying "vroom vroom."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/13/waters_hur_transcripts_confirm_joe_bidens_diminished_faculties_vroom_vroom.html

Anti-Woke Caucus Members Go After State Dept’s Forgivable ‘Loan’ Program For Refugees

 Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who serves as Chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, sent a letter Friday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressing him about the State Department’s funding of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Travel Loan Program.

The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter which asks for specifics regarding the IOM Travel Loan Program that provides refugees with zero interest, penalty free loan payments that can be forgiven for a variety of reasons, including unemployment or bankruptcy. The only penalty for failing to repay IOM loans is a reduced credit score.

“More Americans are defaulting on their auto loans than at any point since the Great Recession. They won’t be able to keep their cars just because they can’t find work in the Biden economy. Meanwhile, foreigners don’t have to worry about repaying their loans or even about driving—they can travel the sunny skies for free on your dime,” Banks told the Caller.

“Joe Biden will always put foreigners their borders first and America last. It’s frustrating that House conservatives won’t be able to push for defunding IOM travel loans and strengthening our own border during the upcoming appropriations votes,” he added.

HERE IS WHAT THE LAWMAKERS ASK FOR IN THE LETTER: 

• How many loans has the State Department issued as part of the Travel Loan Program between January 20, 2021, and March 5, 2024?
• In fiscal year 2023 alone, more than $2.9 billion was appropriated for the Department of State’s migration assistance fund. How much has the State Department spent on interest-and penalty-free loans for refugees and SIVs between January 20, 2021, and March 5, 2024?
• Between January 20, 2021, and March 5, 2024, what is the average loan issued per recipient via the Travel Loan Program?
• What is the numerical breakdown on country of origin for refugees and SIVs who received travel loans between January 20, 2021, and March 5, 2024?
• Of the loans issued from January 20, 2021, to March 05, 2024, how many travel loan repayments have been forgiven, deferred, or reduced? What is the net value of those figures?
• How many resettlement agencies does the State Department partner with in collecting loan payments for travel loans?
• How does the State Department select resettlement agencies with which to partner? What does that process entail?
• What is the range of proportions of repayments that these agencies collect from refugees and SIVs who hold loans?

READ THE LETTER HERE: 

(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) — … by Henry Rodgers

Banks was joined by Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and South Carolina Republican Rep. Jeff Duncan as cosigners.

The lawmakers called for responses to their questions no later than March 22.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/12/exclusive-anti-woke-caucus-members-go-after-state-departments-forgivable-loan-program-for-refugees/