(PEPFAR) President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief

PEPFAR, George W. Bush’s Major Achievement, Decimated By Donald Trump Cuts In Aid And Support Of USAID (US Agency For International Development)!

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President George W. Bush had many negatives while in office, including Hurricane Katrina, the drawn out wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the onset of the Great Recession.

But one major accomplishment was the establishment of PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief), begun by executive order in 2003, and had provided cumulative funding of $120 Billion by 2024, for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research in those 21 years. This was the largest commitment of any nation in history focused on a single disease, and by late 2025, had saved more than 26 million lives, and prevented 7.8 million infants from acquiring HIV at birth.

But in a dastardly act, Donald Trump’s administration has phased out funding for PEPFAR, causing unnecessary deaths, and demonstrating lack of concern for people most affected, particularly in Africa, most of them poverty stricken.

USAID (US Agency For International Development) has been decimated, the work of people like Russell Vought and Stephen Miller, who have no concern about saving lives, while being extremely outspoken against abortion. They lack ethics, morals, and basic common decency.

So called White Christian Nationalists also have no concern, as their racism and nativism reigns supreme, a terrible tragedy for the long range legacy of George W. Bush, who had decent intentions and concerns now being thrown by the wayside!

Horrible Tragedy: Gutting Of So Many Federal Commitments And Agencies!

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Six months have passed since the second Trump Presidency began, and it is now perfectly clear that Donald Trump has waged total war on the federal government, both commitments of long duration, and of agencies and departments of long standing.

The Republican Party in Congress, and the Supreme Court six member majority, are complicit in these horrendous actions.

USAID (US Agency For International Development), which provided life saving aid to millions of poor people, including particularly children, around the world, has been destroyed.

PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Program For Aids Relief), the major accomplishment of former President George W. Bush, which saved at least 26 million lives in Africa from the AIDS epidemic, has been gutted.

The Department of Education, created under President Jimmy Carter after being part of a combined agency under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a commitment to federal engagement in education standards and support, has been cut dramatically.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), created under President Jimmy Carter, had been on the chopping block until the recent Texas Flood Disaster, but still is in danger of being eliminated, as the federal government is moving toward leaving weather and natural disasters to the states to handle on their own.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service, created under Republican President Richard Nixon, are both crucial agencies facing massive cuts in personnel and ability to do their work to protect Americans.

Public funding of NPR and PBS, one tenth of one percent of the federal budget, is being cut completely.

Medicaid and SNAP (Food Stamps), both coming about under President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s, are suffering massive cuts, which will affect, in particular, rural states, but overall, the disabled, the elderly, and poor children, a total travesty!

Tens of thousands of federal employees in a multitude of agencies have lost their jobs, and with it, the federal goverment loses their generations of expertise on all kinds of issues of national security, health care, environmental protections, and so many other roles the federal government has engaged in since the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Great Society, and commitments by Presidents of both parties in the past 50 years since the 1970s.