The Washington Post published on 7 February 2025 an article titled "The White House's Wildly Inaccurate Claims about USAID Spending" by Glenn Kessler.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt cited on 3 February twelve examples of "waste and abuse" at USAID. A fact checker at The Washington Post determined that eleven of the twelve claims about USAID's work were misleading, wrong, or lacked context.
