Topic: foreign aid
Do Republican Voters Support the Programs Their Party Cut? Medicaid, SNAP, and Foreign Aid
Verdicts: 2 True, 5 Mostly True, 1 Misleading
Republican voters favor Medicaid and foreign aid programs their representatives cut. The SNAP data are weaker. Most who backed the cuts believed they’d target fraud, not beneficiaries.
Did the USAID Cuts ‘Do Nothing’? Checking Musk’s ‘Not a Single Name’
Verdicts: 1 True, 2 Misleading, 2 False
Musk says no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts, and the ‘millions’ are false. A NYT columnist named four; models estimate hundreds of thousands of deaths already.