Trump fires remaining members of HIV/AIDS advisory council

Via Billy

The White House fired the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in its entirety on Wednesday, informing the remaining 16 members of the council via a letter delivered by FedEx, according to a report.

The council was sent packing after six members walked away from the council this summer, announcing their resignation in a fiery opinion piece published in Newsweek.

Gabriel Maldonado, CEO of the Riverside, Calif., LGBT and HIV/AIDS group Truevolution, and one of the remaining members, confirmed to the Washington Blade they were fired but said they weren’t given an explanation.

“I can only speculate,” she said. “Like any administration, they want their own people there. Many of us were Obama appointees. I was an Obama appointee, and my term was continuing until 2018.”