The Donald Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to step in and freeze foreign aid spending to the tune of $12 billion that was meant for global HIV/AIDS relief.
Trump’s decimation of USAID has had its fair share of unintended victims, so HIV/AIDS patients being collateral damage for his questionable agenda of cutting funding to the former agency is not necessarily surprising. Just recently, the Trump administration was revealed to be looking into burning contraceptives it had stored in Belgium instead of delivering them to women overseas, because family planning does not align with the prevalent political ideologies of the current administration.
