President Trump said he and First Lady Melania Trump are mourning the “lives lost” on World AIDS Day and reiterated his commitment that the scourge would be eliminated in a decade.

“On World AIDS Day, The First Lady and I express our support for those living with HIV/AIDS and mourn the lives lost. We reaffirm our commitment to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America, community by community where we will eradicate AIDS in 10 years, program already started,” the president wrote in tweets on Sunday. “American leadership has proven that together we can save lives.”

His posting came after top officials at the Democratic National Committee released a statement claiming that the Trump White House’s policies are damaging efforts to fight AIDS.

“His administration has proposed cutting global HIV-prevention programs and attacked health care services that people living with HIV rely on, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Planned Parenthood,” said the statement from DNC Chairman Tom Perez, DNC LGBTQ Caucus Chairman Earl Fowlkes and DNC Disability Council Chairman Tony Coelho.

A White House spokesman took the Democrats to task for attacking Trump on World AIDS Day.

“It was this President who boldly declared in his 2019 State of the Union Address that we are going to end HIV transmissions in the United States within 10 years – a commitment that when achieved will save LGBT lives across the country,” Judd Deere said in a statement. “It’s no surprise that the DNC would attack this President and ignore the facts on World AIDS Day instead of honoring and remembering those we have lost.”

In his February State of the Union address, Trump said his administration would act to wipe out the epidemic.

“My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” he said in the speech. “Together, we will defeat AIDS in America.”

About 1.1 million Americans live with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC noted in a press release issued in February that HIV infections declined between 2010 and 2016 but had begun stabilizing at about 39,000 new cases per year.