Turn on Lawrence RFN - on the insanity of Donvict

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5. Really, Secretary Rubio? I'm Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

Lawrence just covered this story

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/rubio-usaid-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.31Sr.LETY5wx5W1nB&smid=url-share

"While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.

“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted. At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has died because of U.S.A.I.D.”

This is ludicrous: The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. So Representative Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, challenged Rubio, citing reporting overseas by me and by Reuters of individuals who died as a result of the shutdown of American humanitarian aid.

... So let me help Rubio with the truth. Meet Evan Anzoo, a 5-year-old boy who was born with H.I.V. in South Sudan..."