WH budget chief pressed on PEPFAR funds, says Africa ‘needs to absorb more of the burden’

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 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...