"But that's not the world we're now living in. Now we're living in a timeline where the Trump-era CDC simply announces it's stripping $600 million from HIV and STI program funding, and that it's taking the money exclusively from four blue states, and the American public and lawmakers are expected to be so hopelessly tethered to their partisan identities that half the country is supposed to simply cheer the move on."
"MAGA members of red states, cheering the disease prevention health services stripped from the MAGA members of blue states. Oh, you're a Republican voter who lives in Illinois, Colorado, Minnesota or California, and think you should have access to local programs for sexually transmitted disease? Too bad; the President doesn't care if you die from AIDS, because you have the poor fortune of living in the wrong state."
Past presidential administrations concealed retaliatory policies as neutral measures that affected friends and foes equally. The Trump-era CDC announced a $600 million cut to HIV and STI program funding taken exclusively from four blue states. The affected states include California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota. The decision reflects explicit partisan vindictiveness that privileges loyalty over public health and expects partisan supporters to applaud harms to political opponents. Similar partisan bias appears in FEMA disaster-declaration decisions favoring red states. The funding removal jeopardizes disease-prevention services, undermines access to local sexually transmitted disease programs, and increases risk of preventable deaths from AIDS.
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