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The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign it into law.
Presented by AstraZeneca{beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story PEPFAR survives rescissions Senate Republicans are removing a global anti-HIV program from the White
The Senate voted 51 to 48 to claw back about $9 billion in federal funding that lawmakers had approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The so-called rescissions were made at the request of the White House, which has sought to codify spending cuts put forward by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort, the Department of Government Efficiency.
The U.S. Senate has opened debate on a $9 billion rescission bill to claw back foreign aid and other funding not aligned with Trump administration priorities, but will apparently leave one critical public health program alone.
IDSA and HIVMA urged lawmakers to also preserve crucial infrastructure and other programs that support PEPFAR's implementation.
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PEPFAR has not operated in Russia since 2012, when President Vladimir Putin kicked the United States Agency for International Development out of the country. U.S. law prohibits the use of any federal funds to pay for abortions. Funding abortions through PEPFAR would imply not just waste, but serious crimes or negligence, or both.
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Daily Maverick on MSNLoaded for Bear — Pepfar looks set to be saved, showing Republicans still have a shred of decencyIn the dark age of Trump, it seems US Republicans still have a shred of decency left in their political DNA. The second Trump administration has been many things: crass, chaotic, crazy and incompetent,