George W. Bush Calls Out Republicans Trying to End HIV Program PEPFAR

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Related: George W. Bush: Michael Gerson’s words make the case for saving PEPFAR (Washington Post op-ed)

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Source: The Advocate

George W. Bush Calls Out Republicans Trying to End HIV Program PEPFAR

The former president urged Congress to continue funding PEPFAR, a program that was created under his presidency that’s saved more than 25 million lives.

BY ALEX COOPER
SEPTEMBER 13 2023 3:01 PM EST

Republican former President George W. Bush has made his case to preserve the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, after GOP lawmakers have attempted to cut the program because they say it promotes a leftist agenda.

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Bush encouraged lawmakers to continue supporting the program that was created under his leadership and called the initiative “sufficiently pro-life.”

“When I took office in 2001, the situation with HIV/AIDS on the African continent and elsewhere was dire,” he wrote. He explained that advisers including Condoleezza Rice, Joshua Bolten, and Michael Gerson counseled him to act.

Bush said that while Democrats and Republicans should be celebrating the success of the program and the 25 million lives it has been estimated to have saved, some are calling the future of the program into question.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-w-bush-pepfar

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1. He's been reduced to nothing but a RINO in the eyes of most of today's Republicans

And PEPFAR?

They consider it "n***er-loving" policy. That's why they're so fervently opposed to it.