{"id":71830,"date":"2026-04-15T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/vought-cuts-kill-people-aids-activists-interrupt-trump-budget-chief-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:55:46","slug":"vought-cuts-kill-people-aids-activists-interrupt-trump-budget-chief-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/vought-cuts-kill-people-aids-activists-interrupt-trump-budget-chief-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vought cuts kill people\u2019: Aids activists interrupt Trump budget chief hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings brought to halt as protesters condemn Russ Vought for slashing Pepfar program amid sweeping aid cuts<\/p>\n<p>Protesters decrying delays to funding in the battle against HIV\/Aids charged into a congressional hearing where the Trump administration\u2019s budget czar, Russell Vought, was testifying in Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators disrupted the proceedings on Capitol Hill and twice brought the hearing to a halt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/russ-vought-budget-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings brought to halt as protesters condemn Russ Vought for slashing Pepfar program amid sweeping aid cuts Protesters decrying delays to funding in the battle against HIV\/Aids charged into a congressional hearing where the Trump administration\u2019s budget czar, Russell Vought, was testifying in Washington on Wednesday. The demonstrators disrupted the proceedings on Capitol Hill and &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Vought cuts kill people\u2019: Aids activists interrupt Trump budget chief hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/vought-cuts-kill-people-aids-activists-interrupt-trump-budget-chief-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Vought cuts kill people\u2019: Aids activists interrupt Trump budget chief hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}