The New York Times reports the Trump administration is ignoring a congressional directive to fully fund PEPFAR, an HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program credited with saving 26 million lives since President George W. Bush signed it into law in 2003. The Times reports the Office of Management and Budget, led by Russell Vought, has apportioned less than half of the $6 billion appropriated by Congress to PEPFAR for the current fiscal year.

Meanwhile, a union representing federal workers said Thursday the Trump administration has permanently fired 600 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adding to mass layoffs proposed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.