In a letter sent Wednesday to Rubio, Garcia gave the State Department until August 26 to respond. “The Trump Administration has taken unprecedented steps to disassemble the PEPFAR program and withhold or delay crucial, lifesaving funds,” Garcia wrote. “The Trump Administration has remained opaque about the status of funds appropriated for the PEPFAR program and whether they have been disbursed,” Garcia wrote to Rubio. The State Department disputed amfAR’s methodology and said in April that PEPFAR still supported 20.6 million people living with HIV. “We’re a global world,” he said.