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Rescissions Act of 2025

Floor Speech

Date: June 12, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, last month Secretary Rubio responded to me and said no one had died as a result of the gutting of USAID, but Boston University School of Public Health shows us that 300,000 people have died already because they were cut off from food and medicine for tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.

The Center for Global Development says that 3.3 million preventable deaths will occur because of the gutting of USAID, but they won't just die there. Americans will die, too, because when malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS infect anyone in the world, those diseases replicate. They mutate, and they migrate back here in more virulent forms.

Evan Anzoo, a 5-year-old boy, was cut off from his HIV medications in February and died. He is the first to die at the hands of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Let us remember Evan Anzoo.

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