along with dozens of other anti-abortion groups demanding changes to the program should it be renewed.
Smith agreed, and said he will only back a PEPFAR reauthorization if it includes the so-called Mexico City Policy that Biden lifted in 2021. “The word ‘compromise’ suggests there’s something that should be compromised,” Menendez said, dismissing the idea., the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, agreed. “You can’t change and open it up and ultimately destroy it,” he told POLITICO.
Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, said Biden and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients need “to get on the phone and twist some arms.”
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