Therefore, we urge the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee (SFOPS), as well as the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee (LHHS), to take steps to safeguard PEPFAR implementation in Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations bills.
Urge Senate appropriators to safeguard PEPFAR implementation in FY2027 appropriations bills and preserve the CDC's role as a core implementing partner.
Occurrences
Evidence
Booker led a bipartisan letter to Senate appropriations leaders seeking FY2027 PEPFAR safeguards and CDC’s core implementing-partner role.
The SFOPS subcommittee page lists Lindsey Graham as chair, Brian Schatz as ranking member, and PEPFAR under Global Health Programs jurisdiction.
Assessments
The promise was to urge Senate appropriators to safeguard PEPFAR implementation in FY2027 appropriations and preserve CDC's role as a core implementing partner. Evidence shows Booker led a bipartisan Senate letter during his current Senate term to the relevant appropriations leaders asking for exactly that language and protection. Because the promised action was the urging itself, not final enactment of appropriations language, this counts as delivered in the same term.