Donald Trump's administration used nearly a dozen false or misleading claims to justify the dismantling of the nation's primary vehicle for delivering foreign aid, according to a new fact check. The White House this week issued a statement titled,

The news release then listed 12 examples, plucked from the websites of right-wing media. But the numbers cited – as low as $32,000 – hardly justify the claim that these are “massive

Announcing millions of dollars of cuts to online subscriptions, the Trump administration's press secretary repeated misleading statements used to justify the dismantling of the US government's international aid and development agency.

Judge Carl Nichols blocked Donald Trump and Elon Musk's attempted USAID shutdown days after the American Foreign Service Association filed a lawsuit.

Andrew Natsios, a Republican who served under George W. Bush, knocked the pair for pushing "a lot of garbage" in their efforts to gut the agency.