{"id":11241,"date":"2025-07-13T02:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-faces-gut-check-time-on-axing-global-hiv-program\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T02:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:23:30","slug":"senate-gop-faces-gut-check-time-on-axing-global-hiv-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-faces-gut-check-time-on-axing-global-hiv-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP faces \u2018gut check time\u2019 on axing global HIV program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans remain wary of eliminating the popular and successful global HIV\/AIDS program PEPFAR, as they face down a July 18 deadline to vote on President Trump&rsquo;s first tranche of rescissions requests.&nbsp; In his rescissions request to Congress last month, Trump asked that $900 million budgeted for the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5397689-pepfar-funding-debate-republicans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans remain wary of eliminating the popular and successful global HIV\/AIDS program PEPFAR, as they face down a July 18 deadline to vote on President Trump&rsquo;s first tranche of rescissions requests.&nbsp; In his rescissions request to Congress last month, Trump asked that $900 million budgeted for the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}