Two top Democrats are demanding answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio over missing data about a flagship U.S. global health program, warning the gap could be hiding setbacks in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
The ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and her House counterpart, Rep. Gregory Meeks, accused the State Department of withholding most of its fiscal 2025 data for the decades-old President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
“This failure to maintain accurate data was entirely avoidable,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter Monday obtained by NOTUS.