George W. Bush says real “pro-life” Republicans wouldn’t defund his HIV program

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George W. Bush says real “pro-life” Republicans wouldn’t defund his HIV program
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George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.

Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in an a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.

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“Bush has gone woke and is a commie radical librul just like the pope. Guns and jeezus fuck yea!! Murica fuck yea!!” - someone you know

Excuse me, that someone is my father you're speaking about!

That someone for me is my uncle.

I sent him a custom mug with trump’s mugshot and listing all the indictments under “Donald J Trump; the most felonious president”.

He’d be pissed if he could read.

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