Trump Orders U.S. to Stop Distribution of Life-Saving HIV Drugs

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-orders-us-to-stop-distribution-of-life-saving-hiv-drugs/

Trump Orders U.S. to Stop Distribution of Life-Saving HIV Drugs
SO MUCH WINNING
William Vaillancourt
Published 01.27.25 11:40PM EST

President Donald Trump has paused funding for the popular and effective program for distributing HIV/AIDS medications known as PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. As a result of Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order halting the vast majority of foreign aid for at least 90 days, his administration has also ordered that those medications already on the shelves not be disbursed. Since its creation in 2003 by President George W. Bush, PEPFAR—which has a $6.5 billion annual budget— has saved an estimated 26 million lives and prevented millions of infections, according to the State Department. Yet the pause in funding, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told NPR, is a “moral imperative.” The U.S., she added, “is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people.” The bulk of PEPFAR’s work takes place in developing nations, where patients are already being turned away, The New York Times has reported. Jirair Ratevosian, the Biden administration’s chief of staff for PEPFAR, told the outlet, “This is another domino in the devastating impact of the harmful freeze to programs, leaving lives hanging in the balance.”

[Solly Mack]

1. Apparently the Trumpian "golden age" means killing as many as you can.

[sakabatou]

3. Don't you mean gilded age?

Or should it be shit-covered age?

[Solly Mack]

5. Well, he said golden age but yeah, definitely the shiticated age.

[Irish_Dem]

10. People cost too damn much.

They get sick, they need roads, fire departments, schools.

All that money should be going to the politicians and billionaires.

[Solly Mack]

12. So true. Damn things. All they do is take, take, take.

[sakabatou]

2. Dump's slogan should've been "Revenge and Cruelty"

[Joinfortmill]

4. Just the beginning

[dweller]

6. Wonder if *moron

Will finally have something to say about the felonpresident
🤔




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[moondust]

7. Slow genocide.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Imagine if George W. Bush called a press conference defending his own program

and calling Trump's cancelation of it disastrous...

The press treats Bush as all Hail Fellow Well Met. He's the national fun uncle now in the NY Times imaginary. But Bush is what he always was, ever since his father hid him away in the Texas Air National Guard: a fuck up and a coward.

The Cheneys at least have gumption.

[maveric]

9. He wants to get rid of the "Surplus Population ".

Culling the herd.

[Demovictory9]

11. Tammy Bruce is a monster

[Hassler]

13. Everything Scump touches dies. HIV edition

[prodigitalson]

14. That was like 1 of the only 2 good things W did.

The other was designation of some pretty large marine sanctuaries.

I guess they are next.