PEPFAR’s Life-Saving Mission Faces Dangerous Cuts Amid Washington’s Foreign Aid Retreat

For nearly two decades, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been a beacon of American leadership and humanitarian success, saving over 25 million lives from the scourge of HIV/AIDS across the globe. This landmark program exemplifies the power of prudent U.S. investment in global health to project American values of freedom, dignity, and national responsibility beyond our borders. How Can Washington Justify Undermining a Proven Lifeline? Yet today, PEPFAR finds itself imperiled as part of a broader dismantling of U.S. foreign aid under the Trump administration's spending cuts—a shortsighted move that risks unraveling years of progress. While...