Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees By Gabrielle Emanuel, Jonathan Lambert Published May 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM PDT Listen • 4:25 ...

Rubio was defending decisions including major budget cuts and the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

In the 2023 fiscal year, the most recent complete data available, shows the U.S. government spent $71.9 billion in foreign aid, according to ForeignAssistance.gov - or 1.2 percent of annual spending.

In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 21, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared: "No one has died because of USAID [cuts]" — the cutoff of billions of dollars of U.S ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had some testy exchanges with Democratic senators on Tuesday, who questioned him on Trump administration policies ranging from diplomacy with Russia to aid cuts, ...

At the hearings where Rubio spoke, lawmakers highlighted other individual stories of deaths that they attributed to aid cuts. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said that Pe Kha Lau in Myanmar was unable to ...

Rubio was defending decisions including major budget cuts and the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 21, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared: "No one has died because of USAID [cuts]" — the cutoff of billions of dollars of U.S ...