Rep. Garcia asks RFK Jr. to explain targeting of HIV/AIDS funding

Representative Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In a letter to Kennedy, a Thursday, Garcia claimed that the cabinet secretary had a misinformation history of virus and disease and that the planned deductions that are planned to be “worrying and unseen” would cost life.

“We are concerned that your motivations to delay HIV financing and delay preventive services and research have previously spread about HIV and AIDS, including your claim that HIV does not cause AIDS in false knowledge and disinformation,” he wrote.

Health and Human Services officials did not respond immediately to the request for comments on Thursday morning. Kennedy could not be reached immediately.

Both President Trump and Kennedy have previously defended open interruptions to health and human services programs and staff under the leadership of Kennedy. Agency spokesman, Kennedy’nin “Safe, healthy foods, clean water and environmental toxins focus on the elimination of the elimination of America’s chronic disease epidemic will focus more on the priorities, he said.

Kennedy said that the department below the clock would do more to the taxpayer at a lower cost to the taxpayer.

Garcia’s letter with Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), The Sorting Democrat at the Health and Financial Services Sub-Committee, has asked to produce a list of all HIV/AIDS financing of the health department and how these funds have been defined for the elimination of the elimination of the funds.

The letter is the last attempt by the Democrats, in coordination with the health experts and LGBTQ+ organizations, the Trump administration, in which they see as a coordinated effort to eliminate public health initiatives aimed at controlling and terminating one of the most destructive and deadly epidems in human history.

The Senate republicans accepted the request of providing billions of dollars of funds for public media and foreign aid, but rejected a previous White House request for the HIV/AIDS financing of approximately $ 400 million for the Emergency Plan for the President’s AIDS assistance, which provided savings in the poorest ages in the world.

The house had previously voted for a previous version of the measure, which reduced financing for Pepfar, initiated by President George W. Bush in 2003. However, the senators forced the restoration of financing before agreed to sign the wider cancellation package.

The Assembly must approve the Senate version of the measure until Friday to enter into force.

In an interview with Times, Garcia said that Kennedy has long been seeing Kennedy as a dangerous “conspiracy theorist ında about HIV, vaccines and other medical science. Since Kennedy is a health secretary, the American people deserve to know whether national and international health decisions are directed by their unquestionable personal beliefs.

“People should understand what they are trying to do, and I think I think they should be responsible for her actions and be held responsible,” Garcia said.

In his letters, Garcia and Krishnamoorthi said that the latest scientific developments, including the creation of new preventive drugs, make the elimination of HIV more accessible than ever. Nevertheless, Kennedy and Trump are pushing the nation and the world in the opposite direction.

Garcia and Krishnamoorthi, “Trump administration has systematically attacked HIV finance since the task, and blocked critical services to HIV and looked at the most needed.” “These disruptions will threaten Americans with the most risk of contract with HIV, and many people living with HIV will get sick or infected others without programs they trust for treatment.”

The letter summarizes a number of examples of such deductions, including the following:

• HIV Centers Disease Control and Prevention section of the HIV Prevention and HIV prevention grants of billions of dollars termination or delay from this office.
• The termination of a $ 258 million program within the National Health Institutes to find a vaccine to prevent new HIV infections.
• The termination of dozens of nıh grain for HIV research is around the prevention of new infections between black and latin gay men, especially at risk of the virus contract.
• Targeting HIV prevention attempts abroad, including pepfar.
• The US returns from the global fund to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Many of the medical and foreign aid community expressed his serious concerns about the appointment of Kennedy as a health secretary because of his past words about HIV/AIDS. Kennedy a New York Magazine Reporter Until June 2023, there are many better candidates than HIV for what helps ”.

Garcia and Krishnamoorthi called a specific theory in their letters Shared by Kennedy Recreational drug known as “Poppers” can cause AIDSInstead of the HIV virus, “We are concerned that the fund deductions of the Trump administration are caused by a political agenda and not for the benefit of public health.”

Kennedy’s Sufficient about the connection between HIV and AIDS Conflicts with the well -established science, which has been accepted by the medical organization for a long time, and By the federal government. There are studies around the world PROVIDE THE CONNECTIONAnd he found that HIV was the only common factor in AIDS cases.

In August 2023, about a week before Kennedy’s support behind Trump, he discussed the discussions surrounding the presidential campaign “Poppers, and claimed that Kennedy did not believe that Poppers was AIDS’s“ the only cause of AIDS, but in the 1980s, an important factor in the progress of early patients.

Garcia and Krishnamoorthi, Los Angeles district of local officials and defenders last month, the Trump administration was frozen throughout the country last month after the end of the HIV/AIDS financing of approximately $ 20 million last month.

The restoration of these funds said that Kennedy’s representative Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) and AIDS Research Foundation, known as AIDS Research Foundation, said that the deductions may lead to 127,000 additional deaths for AIDS within five years.

Garcia and Krishnamoorthi stated the same statistics in their letters.

In an interview with The Times, Garcia, the Garcia, said that the LGBTQ+ community is “rightful ve and what Kennedy’s“ its own conspiracy theories and the truths are, what is their own HIV and the aids, and the crooked view of the public health infrastructure around HIV and AIDS.