"We shut down U.S. aid because it was a dysfunctional organization, Rubio began. We moved it under the State Department, he said. We are going to do more foreign aid than any country in the world but we're going to do it the right way. That's all in the future, but are you standing by that comment you're saying that no one died because of the aid cuts are all those aid organizations? Stephanopoulos asked."
"That's ridiculous, Rubio snapped back. He continued: Well first of all, well then they died because England didn't give enough money or Canada didn't give more or China did. Let's blame the other countries that don't do any foreign aid. How about China? I mean China's the second largest economy in the world. They don't give money to these projects."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that U.S. aid cuts caused deaths and defended shutting down USAID as dysfunctional and corrupt. He said aid functions were moved under the State Department and promised more effectively administered foreign assistance. A July Lancet report warned cuts to USAID could result in approximately 14 million deaths over five years, with children under five comprising about one third of those fatalities. Rubio shifted blame to other countries for insufficient contributions and to local corruption and gangs that steal relief on the ground. He rejected attribution of specific global tragedies to single U.S. dollar reductions.
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