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Senate Spares Funding for HIV Program, Removing It From DOGE Cuts Package

There were concerns among GOP senators about the cut to the global HIV relief program, called PEPFAR.
Senate Spares Funding for HIV Program, Removing It From DOGE Cuts Package
Images photographed on the site of the Coptic Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, on Dec. 2, 2006. The Coptic hospital is run through donations and is a beneficiary of the PEPFAR project, part of the U.S. president's program on AIDS. Brent Stirton/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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The Senate will remove a provision in a rescissions bill that would have cut funding for a program that combats HIV and AIDS, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced on July 15.

The rescissions bill would claw back $9 billion in federal spending, a $400 million reduction from the $9.4 billion in original cuts.

Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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