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Posted on 01/23/2026 6:52:44 AM PST by fwdude
Rejects President’s & House Republicans’ Extreme Cuts & Program Eliminations
Washington DC… “After a tumultuous year of proposed program cuts and eliminations, Congress has agreed to reject them and instead has maintained funding for domestic HIV prevention and treatment programs on a bipartisan basis. Now, the Trump administration must focus its attention on properly implementing these programs in order to get the nation back on track to end HIV in the U.S.,” said Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute.
In the final FY2026 spending bill released today by the Appropriations Committees, Congress rejected the House Republicans’ spending bill that would have decimated domestic HIV programs by cuts of over $1.7 billion, including the elimination of all HIV prevention programs, the entire Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, and $525 million, or 20 percent, of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Program.
The final spending package closely tracks the Senate bipartisan bill that passed out of Committee in July 2025.
Advocates, including the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, have spent the entire year explaining the importance of funding domestic HIV prevention and treatment programs, and fighting against the proposed massive spending cuts, which have caused great uncertainty and disarray across the country.
“We urge Congress to pass the bill that hopefully will end the instability, particularly for HIV prevention, and allow state and local health departments, community-based organizations, and the federal staff to do their work,” continued Schmid. “With such promising tools as long-acting treatment and prevention there is so much more to be done to get them to the people who need them. Flat funding will certainly not address the growing demands, but it is far better than receiving no funding.”
Funding for hepatitis prevention received an increase of $3 million for a total of $46 million.
The spending package also includes long-awaited and needed regulation of pharmacy benefit managers that play a large role in determining prescription drug access and how much patients pay. The bill includes provisions that delink PBM compensation from drug prices in Medicare, require 100 percent pass-through of rebates and fees, and impose greater transparency and reporting requirements.
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It has occurred to me that HIV was never about the disease. It was about making it possible for people to live without immune systems.
This has enabled the wholesale harvesting and sale of organs.
There’s your fag tax, people. How much of the funding will go to drag queen queer story hours?
Down with fecal matter!
Like alcoholism and drug addiction, AIDS is a disease caused by BEHAVIOR. If you can’t handle alcohol, don’t drink. Don’t abuse drugs. If you don’t want AIDS, don’t stick you-know-what you-know-where!
Gotta’ be more, complications of HIV are lifelong. Kidney failure, heart disease, brain disorder.
Like alcoholism and drug addiction, AIDS is a disease caused by BEHAVIOR. If you can’t handle alcohol, don’t drink. Don’t abuse drugs. If you don’t want AIDS, don’t stick you-know-what you-know-where!
Behaviors are complex.
Behaviors can be modified. (at least Mom always thought so)
Addiction is choices. Bottom line is many addicts CHOOSE their addiction over family relationships. Life is full of choices.
And we should never be forced to subsidized the fallout from other people's choices.
Obama got HIV treatment construed as "prevention," making the treatment completely insurance-subsidized WITH NO CO-PAYMENT. This causes everyone's health premiums to skyrocket.
I can remember not too many administrations ago we were fighting the very beginnings of a demand to subsidize the exorbitant costs of AIDS drugs. We're there now.
Hire Muslims to implement the program
The queers demand that taxpayers must pay for their fudge packing. What about those who get syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea or genital herpes?
Who is paying for those treatments? The list of sexual vices never ends and they are almost always committed by filthy democrats. /spit
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What appalling is that we spend over $1.7 billion for the most freely preventable disease in history.
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It’s only taxpayer $ & unconstitutional spending. You’ll STILL vote for us en masse in EVERY election *shrug*
- GOP(e)/(R)N(C)
Nope. It all goes to grifters. HIV infants get no aid. Like a Learing Center.
It will be spent on community activism and awareness, code for schemes to pull six figure salaries for the connected lefties. Leasing cars, condos in white sand places, five star restaurants, nannies, and cosmetic surgery.
“Flat funding will certainly not address the growing demands”
If there is growing demands then is it reasonable to conclude that the programs were not successful in the prior 4 years and good money should not be thrown after bad?
“What about those who get syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea or genital herpes? Who is paying for those treatments?”
Medicaid is paying, mostly. Biggest cost of Medicaid is lifestyle choices of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, STD/HIV and newborns of the above.
Conservative commentator Thomas Sowell accurately depicted this leftist rationale in the Four Stages of the vision of the Annointed (intelligensia). Stages 3 & 4 are uncanny:
STAGE 3. THE RESULTS: The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z.STAGE 4. THE RESPONSE: Those who attribute detrimental result Z to the policies instituted are dismissed as “simplistic” for ignoring the “complexities” involved, as “many factors” went into determining the outcome. The burden of proof is put on the critics to demonstrate to a certainty that these policies alone were the only possible cause of the worsening that occurred. No burden of proof whatever is put on those who had so confidently predicted improvement. Indeed, it is often asserted that things would have been even worse, were it not for the wonderful programs that mitigated the inevitable damage from other factors.
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