‘It’s Inhumane To Abandon The PEPFAR Effort’: Hakeem Jeffries Slams Looming Cuts To Global AIDS Relief

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During a press briefing on Friday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about looming cuts to the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

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00:00Are you concerned that cutting PEPFAR funding, that's something that the White House has

00:07proposed in the rescission package, is going to set the United States back as a leader

00:12on the global effort to eradicate HIV AIDS? What's your take, what's your message during

00:18Pride Month to folks out there who are concerned that the United States has been a leader with

00:22PEPFAR on HIV, but that's at risk now with the Republicans putting forward this rescission

00:27package?

00:28The effort to eradicate HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the country, as led by the

00:38United States of America through PEPFAR, has been a phenomenal success. It's inhumane to

00:45abandon the PEPFAR effort. And this is a program that was put into place in a bipartisan way,

00:54led by President George W. Bush in partnership with leaders in the House of Representatives

01:02like Barbara Lee.

01:05It's shameful that because of their ideological extremism, Republicans are trying to crush

01:16the PEPFAR program, which ultimately helps the health, safety and well-being of the American

01:26people by crushing HIV and AIDS. All of these efforts by the Trump administration to attack

01:39our public health successes, both here and abroad, put the American people in danger. And that's one of the

01:49reasons why House Democrats will be strongly opposed to the reckless Republican rescissions package.

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