Rubio Destroys Stephanopoulos Over 'U.S. Causing Deaths' Narrative

Posted • September 23, 2025: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, but on Tuesday morning, he took some time out to make the morning show rounds on several networks. He didn't shy away from promoting the Donald Trump administration's "America First" policies. On ABC, George Stephanopoulos seemed obsessed with cuts to foreign aid, claiming they've led to deaths around the world. Rubio wasn't willing to play along with that tired narrative that I thought the left finally gave up on months ago. As the secretary has pointed out numerous times, USAID was a "dysfunctional organization" filled with corruption that was doing more to line pockets and spread a wacky leftist agenda than actually help people. —— Secretary Marco Rubio nukes George Slopodopolous: "No one has died because the U.S. has cut aid. People have died because gangs steal the aid… People have died because other countries have not stepped up. But the U.S. has saved more lives… than any other country in the world." (…)

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