Stephanopoulos tried to pivot: “It does cost money to shut down USAID, doesn’t it? Stephanopoulos seethed: “[A]re you standing by that comment that you’re saying no one has died? RUBIO: One of the reasons why these places didn’t get the aid is not because we cut the aid. It’s because there’s a war going on and the aid never got to the people. There was a Republican senator who said we’re starting to look like a third world country.