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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

‘Vought cuts kill people’: Aids activists interrupt Trump budget chief hearing

Protesters interrupt Senate hearing where White House budget director Russell Vought testifies
Protesters interrupt the budget hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Protesters decrying delays to funding in the battle against HIV/Aids charged into a congressional hearing where the Trump administration’s budget czar, Russell Vought, was testifying in Washington on Wednesday.

The demonstrators disrupted the proceedings on Capitol Hill and twice brought the hearing to a halt.

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