OMB Director Russ Vought: “It is critical that this body and the American people writ large understand that many foreign aid programs use benevolent-sounding titles to hide truly appalling activity that is not in line with the American interest. For example, under the guise of so-called preventive care within the PEPFAR program, Americans have been funding the following: $5.5 million to LGBTQ advocacy in Uganda, $800,000 for transgender people, s*x workers, and their clients in Nepal, $3.6 million for LGBTQ activism, free training in pastry cooking, psychosocial counseling, a cyber cafe, and the dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti, and $1.1 million to produce a gender transformation and diverse social and behavior change report, which advocates against, quote, “gender blindness.”
Most Americans would be shocked and appalled to learn that their tax dollars—money they thought was going to medical care—was actually going to Far-Left activism, population control, and s*x workers. To be clear, no life-saving treatment will be impacted by this rescission package. Anyone currently receiving life-saving treatment will continue to receive that treatment.”