{"id":30407,"date":"2026-07-29T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=30407"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:57:22","slug":"sen-ossoff-colleagues-pressuring-trump-admin-to-release-hiv-aids-prevention-funding-to-cdc","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-colleagues-pressuring-trump-admin-to-release-hiv-aids-prevention-funding-to-cdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff, Colleagues Pressuring Trump Admin to Release HIV\/AIDS Prevention Funding to CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressuring the Trump Administration to release funding for HIV\/AIDS prevention to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Sen. Ossoff is leading a group of Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to approve the transfer of $2 billion in funds meant for the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This inquiry comes as new internal guidance<\/a> by the State Department would end the transfer of PEPFAR funds to the CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to former CDC Directors<\/a>, without this dedicated funding stream, more than 18 CDC outposts could close<\/a> before the end of the year, reducing the ability for the agency to launch timely and sufficient global health responses to disease outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is joined by Senators Andy Kim (D-NJ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Ed Markey (D-MA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe rushed abandonment of a proven and effective structure threatens to increase the risk of future global health pandemics and disease outbreaks,\u201d Sen. Ossoff and the group wrote. <\/strong>\u201cCountries are struggling to maintain the programs set up by USAID and PEPFAR funding, facing more new infections and more deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge you to immediately rescind any guidance suggesting that State will no longer honor the transfer of $2 billion to CDC and commit to upholding this long-standing transfer that keeps Americans safe,\u201d Sen. Ossoff and the group continued<\/strong>.

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect public health, the CDC, and its workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, Sen. Ossoff slammed<\/a> U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for terminating<\/a> the CDC\u2019s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) surveillance<\/a> of Cyclospora cayetanensis, the parasite responsible for cyclosporiasis.

Earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff worked with Republicans and Democrats to ensure<\/a> the CDC receives crucial funding to protect the American people, successfully defeating the Trump Administration\u2019s proposed 50% cut in funding for the CDC in the FY26 budget.

Last October, Sen. Ossoff led Georgia\u2019s Democratic Congressional Delegation in calling on<\/a> Secretary Kennedy to answer for the chaos and disruption at the CDC that has marked his tenure, including the firings of CDC employees.

Last June, Sen. Ossoff spoke<\/a> in the Appropriations Committee markup of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education funding bill about bipartisan efforts to protect the CDC.

Also in June, Sen. Ossoff demanded<\/a> answers from the Trump Administration following an NPR report<\/a> that the CDC Program to prevent fentanyl overdoses had been frozen.

In 2025, Sen. Ossoff and other members of Congress demanded<\/a> that the Trump Administration provide answers on the reported shutdown<\/a> of a critical Maternal Health data system at the CDC.

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s full inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressuring the Trump Administration to release funding for HIV\/AIDS prevention to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sen. Ossoff is leading a group of Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to approve the transfer of $2 billion in funds meant for the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30407","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/30407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/30407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30408,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/30407\/revisions\/30408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}