{"id":2028859,"date":"2023-09-12T04:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-arrest-7-people-who-stormed-mccarthys-office-in-protest-over-hiv-aids-funding\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:58:11","slug":"police-arrest-7-people-who-stormed-mccarthys-office-in-protest-over-hiv-aids-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-arrest-7-people-who-stormed-mccarthys-office-in-protest-over-hiv-aids-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"7 arrested for storming McCarthy&#8217;s office in HIV\/AIDS funding protest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-arrest-7-people-who-stormed-mccarthys-office-in-protest-over-hiv-aids-funding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028859&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Multiple activists have been\u200b arrested\u200d after entering House Speaker \u2063Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s office\u2063 on\u200b Sept. 11 and staging \u2062a \u2063protest over HIV\/AIDS funding,\u200b according to officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>At\u2063 least seven protesters \u2064were arrested during the incident, Capitol Police confirmed to\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/11\/activists-arrested-for-occupying-mccarthys-office-over-aids-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This morning, multiple individuals\u2064 were demonstrating inside a House Office Building. After the demonstrators refused to cease demonstrating, USCP then arrested\u2062 the 4 males and \u200d3\u2062 females for unlawful entry,&#8221; \u2064a Capitol Police spokesperson told \u200bthe\u200b publication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mccarthy-faces-challenging-september-amid-shutdown-threat-biden-impeachment-question-5486371\">McCarthy Faces Challenging September Amid Shutdown\u2062 Threat, Biden Impeachment Question<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/5\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mccarthy-faces-challenging-september-amid-shutdown-threat-biden-impeachment-question-5486371\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mccarthy-stresses-formal-vote-for-biden-impeachment-inquiry-5485350\">McCarthy Stresses Formal Vote for Biden Impeachment Inquiry<\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/1\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mccarthy-stresses-formal-vote-for-biden-impeachment-inquiry-5485350\"><\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a separate statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/09\/11\/protest-arrest-kevin-mccarthy-pepfar-hiv-aids-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>, Brianna Burch, \u2064a Capitol Police spokeswoman,\u200b said\u200d police had been called to \u200bthe demonstration at about 11:18 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>It is not clear exactly how long the protest lasted \u200bor if Mr. McCarthy was out\u2064 of his office when the protesters\u200b stormed in.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted Capitol Police for further comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1701269598908342429?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video footage<\/a> \u2064of the protest was widely shared \u200conline.\n  <\/div>\n<p>It shows multiple individuals seated on the floor\u2063 of Mr. McCarthy\u2019s office, \u2063linking arms and raising their \u200dfists in\u2064 the air while chanting \u2062&#8221;<strong>Pass \u2064PEPFAR now, McCarthy!<\/strong>&#8221; \u200dreferring to the President\u2019s\u2062 Emergency Plan for\u2063 AIDS Relief\u200c (PEPFAR).<\/p>\n<p>PEPFAR is a\u200c government initiative introduced \u200bby former President George W. Bush to address the global HIV\/AIDS epidemic. The\u200b program\u200b provides\u2063 funding for HIV\/AIDS prevention and epidemic control, as well as research\u200c and \u2062treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2003,\u2063 PEPFAR has saved more \u2063than \u206425 million lives and &#8220;<strong>dramatically improved health outcomes<\/strong>&#8221; in more\u200b than 55 partner\u200d countries, \u2063according to the White \u2062House.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>U.S. Speaker\u200c of the House Rep. Kevin\u200c McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to members \u200cof the \u2064press outside his office\u2064 at\u2062 the \u2063U.S. Capitol in\u2064 Washington\u2062 on June 7,\u200d 2023. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<h2>Abortion \u200cConcerns<\/h2>\n<p>The program has since been reauthorized three times, and President Joe Biden in January indicated\u2062 that he would work with lawmakers in Congress to pass a government\u200d funding bill for\u2063 the initiative to extend for\u200d a \u200cfourth time before\u2062 it expires\u2062 on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>However, House Republicans have so\u200d far stalled reauthorization efforts amid concerns that the \u2064program&#8217;s roughly $7 billion in funding may \u200cbe used to support abortions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a May report \u2064from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budget-and-spending\/report\/reassessing-americas-30-billion-global-aids-relief-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage\u2063 Foundation<\/a>, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., the\u2064 Biden\u200d administration has &#8220;misused the program as a\u2063 well-funded vehicle to promote its domestic radical social agenda overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Congress should resist the Biden Administration\u2019s effort to poison bipartisan support for PEPFAR by \u200cmisusing it to promote abortion\u2063 under the \u200cguise of\u200b sexual\u2064 and reproductive health and transgenderism,&#8221; the think\u2064 tank wrote in its report.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has\u2062 denied those claims.<\/p>\n<p>The activists who illegally occupied\u2064 Mr.\u2063 McCarthy&#8217;s \u200coffice were with two New \u200cYork City-based nonprofits:\u200d Housing Works and Health GAP, according to officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HealthGAP\/status\/1701260311364243964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video footage<\/a> of some of the arrests on\u200c X, formerly known as Twitter.\n  <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As activists from\u200d @housingworks and @HealthGAP are \u2064arrested in an act of civil disobedience in\u2064 Speaker \u2062McCarthy&#8217;s office, a reminder that \u200b@PEPFAR exists\u200c today because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-arrest-7-people-who-stormed-mccarthys-office-in-protest-over-hiv-aids-funding\/\" title=\"7 arrested for storming McCarthy's office in HIV\/AIDS funding protest.\">brave\u2062 activist direct action targeting duty bearers<\/a>. Proud of activists! #ProudofPEPFAR,&#8221; the organization wrote.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-orders-housing-to-homeless-in-l-a-county\/\" title=\"Federal judge orders housing to homeless in L.A. County\">man walks past<\/a> a signboard warning residents that the threat of HIV\/AIDS \u200dis real in Lagos, Nigeria, on March 31, \u200b2001. (Pius Utomi Ekpei\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<h2>&#8216;Political Football&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Charles King, CEO of Housing\u200d Works, was among those arrested, the\u200c organization confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;PEPFAR\u200d has saved\u2064 millions\u2064 of lives. It is criminal for \u2062some members of Congress to treat it as a political football,&#8221; Mr. King said in a statement following the protest. &#8220;AIDS isn\u2019t over \u200cuntil it\u2019s \u2064over for everyone. PEPFAR\u200c has been essential to helping people \u200din developing countries flatten the curve of HIV transmission.\u2062 The United States has\u2064 committed \u200cto the international goal\u200c of ending AIDS by 2030, and we cannot do that \u200cif\u2062 PEPFAR is threatened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haiti relies on PEPFAR funding for\u2063 all of its HIV treatment,&#8221; Mr. King continued. &#8220;Housing Works is intimately involved in monitoring the distribution of ARVs [antiretrovirals] in Haiti, which are 100 percent funded through PEPFAR, so we are acutely\u2064 aware of the risk posed\u2063 by any \u2063threat to the funding \u2064of this \u200dvital program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Asia Russell, executive director\u2062 of Health GAP,\u200c accused House\u200d Republicans of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-face-gun-legislation-dilemma-as-support-for-house-background-check-bill-breaks-down\/\" title=\"Democrats Face Gun Legislation Dilemma as Support for House Background Check Bill Breaks Down\u00a0\">playing political games<\/a> with \u2063the lives of \u200ccountless \u2064adults, children, and newborns with HIV\u200d and\u200d most affected by HIV \u200dacross the globe and here\u2064 in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Russell was \u2062al<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple activists were arrested for protesting HIV\/AIDS funding in House Speaker Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s office on Sept. 11. Capitol Police confirmed the arrest of at least seven protesters during the incident. 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