“No children are dying on my watch.”
That’s what Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers at the House of Representatives on Wednesday during the third of four marathon hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
It was the second time that Rubio — who has overseen the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development since President Donald Trump returned to office — made such an assertion in the hearing. Earlier that morning, he told Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, that “no one had died” because of cuts to USAID.