Under the direction of Russell Vought, the head of President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will receive only $2.9 billion in Fiscal Year 2025, less than half of the $6 billion appropriated by Congress, Stephanie Nolen, the global health reporter for the New York Times, reported on Aug. 21. PEPFAR, created in 2003 by President George W. Bush to fund HIV prevention and treatment programs in Africa and other parts of the world, is credited with saving an estimated 26 million lives since it was established.

In July of this year, the Trump administration withdrew a proposed $400 million rescission from PEPFAR’s FY 2025 budget in the face of public opposition from Republican senators. But, the New York Times reported “that fight

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