01/30/2026
CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. LIKE, RIGHT NOW.
Republican leaders in Congress are trying to hold funding for federal HIV care and prevention programs hostage to force through billions of dollars for ICE and CBP's (Customs & Border Protection's) violent attacks on Black and Brown communities.
Congress is currently working on next year's federal budget, which sets funding levels for many critical HIV-related programs. While the Senate has proposed maintaining or slightly increasing these services, the version advanced by Republican lawmakers in the House would massively slash HIV funding by almost $2 billion.
These cuts would devastate HIV care and prevention efforts across the country and set our response to the epidemic back decades. They will lead to more new cases of HIV and HIV-related deaths, especially among Black, Latine, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, low income, and other communities already hardest hit by the epidemic.
Tell Congress: Fund HIV Care, Not ICE!
The Senate is voting this week on a 2026 federal budget.
Join us in telling Congress to fund HIV care and prevention services, not violent attacks on our communities. Call your Senators and urge them to:
- Call for a separate vote on funding for the Department of Homeland - Security (DHS, which includes ICE and CBP)
- Pass a budget that fully funds all federal HIV care and prevention programs
- Oppose any new funding for ICE and CBP
Find more information and learn how to contact your Senators at the link in our bio.
