Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people

[Nevilledog]

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/402944/pepfar-hiv-donald-trump-elon-musk-global-health


A lot has happened in the last six weeks, to put it mildly, and it can be hard to see through the dust and tell what’s actually ongoing.

The government threatened tariffs, backed off, then did the tariffs, and then started carving out tariff exceptions for connected-enough constituencies.

We did showy military deportation flights then stopped because they’re incredibly expensive. Trump’s flurry of executive orders tried to end birthright citizenship (a judge put that on hold), and froze the issuing of passports to transgender Americans (this is being slowly resolved as people individually appeal to their representatives or the media for help). Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, team slashed the federal workforce, then sent emails hiring many people back.

One result has been that it is very hard to communicate as a journalist — or to learn as an interested member of the public — which of the harmful things that the government is doing are actually ongoing and actually worth pushing back on.

But here is an enormously high-stakes problem that is clear and still ongoing: the cancellation of our best-performing overseas programs to treat infectious disease.

*snip*

[dchill]

1. Yes. MANY of the things that REPUBLICANS want to cut...

...involve killing at least thousands of people. All in the name of tax cuts for already insanely and indecently wealthy people. AND in the name of grift.

[WestMichRad]

2. If, like me, the acronym PEPFAR is...

… one that you can’t remember what it means… it is President’s Emergency Relief For AIDS Relief, the global health funding by the US to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease.

I had to look it up… now you don’t need to.

[wendyb-NC]

3. The cruelty is beyond words

I guess the more casualties, the more powerful the orange shitbag feels.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. I think he enjoys

People living or dying based on his whims.

[SilasSouleII]

7. Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief

PEPFAR

[calimary]

13. Like he even cares about AIDS relief.

[Firestorm49]

11. Thank you, West MI Rad. I hate undefined acronyms.

Say what the hell it is once, then use the acronym.

[fierywoman]

4. I keep reminding myself that (I think it was) Michael Popk of Legal AF made the point

that in the first tfg admin, something like 97% of his EOs were never enacted.

[TommyT139]

6. Sadly

This time around, he has other people writing them for him.

And in between renaming international bodies of water and suing pollsters who didn't twist their numbers to favor him -- those people are Getting. Shit. Done.

[MissB]

8. They do not care

Zero empathy. Actually less than zero empathy because we aren’t even talking about Americans.

American deserves to be isolated until we work this shit out.

[Karasu]

9. This really is coming off as deliberate population culling/forced eugenics at this point. So many of these decisions

serve no other purpose than to kill people. Particularly people fascists find undesirable.

[paul91046]

10. Worse than hitler

And soon will have caused more deaths. And that doesn't include the covid deaths because of what that ass said. Bleach! What an ass.

[Solly Mack]

12. They want people to die.

Oh, they will couch their denial in all manner of ways, but their actions say otherwise.

[Skittles]

14. courtesy of the "christian pro-life party"

yup