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‘It’s Inhumane To Abandon The PEPFAR Effort’: Hakeem Jeffries Slams Looming Cuts To Global AIDS Relief
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6/6/2025
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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Are you concerned that cutting PEPFAR funding, that's something that the White House has
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proposed in the rescission package, is going to set the United States back as a leader
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on the global effort to eradicate HIV AIDS? What's your take, what's your message during
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Pride Month to folks out there who are concerned that the United States has been a leader with
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PEPFAR on HIV, but that's at risk now with the Republicans putting forward this rescission
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package?
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The effort to eradicate HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the country, as led by the
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United States of America through PEPFAR, has been a phenomenal success. It's inhumane to
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abandon the PEPFAR effort. And this is a program that was put into place in a bipartisan way,
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led by President George W. Bush in partnership with leaders in the House of Representatives
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like Barbara Lee.
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It's shameful that because of their ideological extremism, Republicans are trying to crush
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the PEPFAR program, which ultimately helps the health, safety and well-being of the American
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people by crushing HIV and AIDS. All of these efforts by the Trump administration to attack
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our public health successes, both here and abroad, put the American people in danger. And that's one of the
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reasons why House Democrats will be strongly opposed to the reckless Republican rescissions package.
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