Senate Republicans Sabotage $400 Million of Trump’s Anti-Woke Cuts

The Washington Stand ^ | July 17, 2025 | Suzanne Bowdy

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For a party with such distrust in the mainstream media, Republicans certainly put a lot of stock in the headlines about PEPFAR. While thousands of people would most certainly not die from the targeted cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Senate Republicans are determined to keep throwing taxpayer dollars at the Democrats’ woke programs in the name of “foreign aid.”

In a blow to Donald Trump’s goal to end government bloat and abuse, moderate senators — led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) — threw a tantrum over the White House’s plan to shave a fraction ($400 million) of PEPFAR’s annual $7.1 billion bucket without ever reading what the cuts actually were. The casualties weren’t life-saving care, treatment, education, and training, as administration officials repeatedly tried to point out. They were course corrections from Joe Biden’s outrageous African expansion into radical LGBT and abortion advocacy.

“We’ve got some weak knees up here,” Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) shook his head... Look, Marshall insisted, “I have all the compassion in the world for people with AIDS. I want to do everything we can to help those folks. But again, we’re already giving them $7 billion a year, and we wanted to cut out some of this waste, fraud, abuse, as we just described.”

“Five percent is all President Trump was asking to be cut from this. And it’s not in the direct aid of the drugs and the essential resources needed to treat AIDS. [These are], as you pointed out, frivolous, wasteful programs.” And even if, Marshall interjected, you were determined to spend that $400 million in these countries, there are a lot better ways to do it. “The poor kids are dying because they don’t have clean water. [That] would be a better use of this money…”

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