Directly transfer $2 billion allocated for PEPFAR from the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs account to the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies account, specifically to CDC.
Seek a direct transfer of $2 billion in PEPFAR funding to the CDC through FY2027 appropriations to preserve CDC global health implementation work.
Occurrences
Evidence
Booker’s office reported that he and a bipartisan group of 25 senators urged Senate Appropriations Committee leaders to oppose withholding CDC global HIV prevention and surveillance funding under PEPFAR. The posted letter asked the SFOPS and Labor-HHS subcommittees to safeguard PEPFAR implementation in FY2027 appropriations and to consider directly transferring $2 billion allocated for PEPFAR from the State, Foreign Operations account to the Labor-HHS-Education account, specifically to CDC.
The Senate Appropriations Committee identifies State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs jurisdiction as including Global Health Programs and PEPFAR, matching the source account named in Booker’s FY2027 request.
The Senate Appropriations Committee identifies Labor-HHS-Education jurisdiction as including HHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Global Health, matching the destination account and agency named in Booker’s request.
Assessments
The promise was framed as an effort promise: to seek a direct $2 billion PEPFAR-to-CDC transfer through FY2027 appropriations. During Booker’s current Senate term, his office reported that he joined a bipartisan Senate letter to relevant Appropriations leaders asking them to safeguard CDC global HIV work and consider transferring $2 billion in PEPFAR funding to CDC via the FY2027 appropriations process. That materially satisfies the promised action, even though the evidence does not show final enactment of the transfer.