Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation Perhaps he thinks it only affects drug users and gays, both of which he probably doesn't care much about anyway, they're only people after all.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation Let's See. we have the WHO, World Health, we have the CDC and NIH, APHA and other health care groups out the WAZOO, so why did there come a Necessity for a lone singular events statistic investigatory group feeding off the federal dime? Duplicative organizations require moneys that could be, would be better spent by less spread of wealth.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation There is no logical reason for Trump's actions except to cater to the bigots in his ever shrinking base.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation Each of those organizations are different from the other and offer different services/information/research/products.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation Before hyperventilating to the point of passing out, everyone should wait until it becomes apparent that he's not planning on appointing people to fill the now-empty seats, or appoints people who are unqualified. This is standard Trump operating procedure - he doesn't want holdovers from the previous administration, so he dumps all of them immediately rather than following standard practice of appointing new members as holdover members' appointments expire.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation It isn't a political branch, they are unpaid volunteers of mixed politics. They are from all over the country and there are those who were also from the Bush admin. He doesn't give a rat's behind about persons with HIV/AIDS.
Re: Trump Fires Entire Council on HIV/AIDS With No Explanation It doesn't make any difference to Trump what the nature of the group is. He only wants to have his appointees on the panel. Now, if he doesn't appoint replacements, or the replacements he appoints aren't qualified, then you have some justification for your speculation on his motives.