“In citing "waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years”: “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.”
Karoline Leavitt
White House Press Secretary. Claim dated 3 Feb 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisDistorts the Facts
What FactCheck.org found
Some of those projects weren’t described accurately. And only the first was funded by USAID; the rest were funded by the State Department.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Karoline Leavitt (White House Press Secretary) made this claim around 3 February 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 February 2025, 5 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Karoline Leavitt has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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