This is a linkpost for https://www.devex.com/news/us-lawmakers-strike-50b-foreign-assistance-deal-surpassing-trump-s-plan-111671
New appropriations bill would restore a majority of US global health spending.
“Global health programs emerge as relative winners, retaining more than $9.4 billion in total funding. Of that, approximately $3.5 billion is allocated for general global health programs, including child survival, immunization, nutrition, public health, and more. The bill report specifies that $300 million of that funding should be directed to Gavi. An additional $5.88 billion is provided to HIV prevention, treatment, and control, including a $1.25 billion contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.”
May be a decent time to contact your congress people in support of this part of the appropriations bill.
My understanding was that the administration hadn't changed the appropriations, they'd just ensured that those appropriations couldn't be spent on anything (i.e. they did everything through the executive, not congress). I'm hoping I can be happy about this, but it reads to me like status quo.
The global fund bit is maybe more of an update.
(I'm aware I could just ask an LLM but I thought there may be value in being confused in public, in case anyone else feels the same)
I think a point here is based off last year’s executive cuts & statements we expected like a 50% global health cut officially put into the budget, but we are actually only seeing like a 25% cut.
It’s true that Trump may still solely & unlawfully block spending, but this indicates those actions would likely not continue beyond his term & also the resulting suffering & deaths would really be solely on him.