“A tiny group of Republican senators continues to block a vote on an important bill to increase American spending on AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world” i.e. PEPFAR.
Republicans opposing the re-authorisation of PEPFAR have done so on different grounds. A recurring argument being the cost of the President’s plan which, lest we forget represents less than 1.5% of the cost of the Iraq war. Another argument is the elimination of the statutory ban on admitting people infected with the HIV virus into the US, putting the country on …