HHS ends Biden-era COVID-19 testing program that bled taxpayers years after pandemic

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is shuttering a nationwide program that offered free COVID-19 tests to community organizations, citing it bled taxpayer funds despite the pandemic's end. 

"With COVID-19 behaving more like the seasonal flu — rising and falling through the year — and tests widely available at retail stores nationwide, continued federal distribution is a significant waste of taxpayers’ dollars," HHS told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "The COVID-19 pandemic is over and HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again."

The government had spent more than $1 billion on the program since it was established in 2021 under the Biden admin...