Office and Management Budget Director Russell Vought on Wednesday was pressed on proposed cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) pursued as part of a new rescissions request from the Trump administration.

During a budget hearing on Wednesday, Vought defended proposed reductions as targeting items like "teaching young children how to make environmentally friendly reproductive health decisions," and efforts he claimed were aimed at strengthening "the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer global movements."

“We can find waste, fraud and abuse there that the American people would not support, and it’s one of the reasons why it’s in the package, but it will not lead to life saving treatment being denied,” he said during the hearing.

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