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President Donald Trump’s moves to end foreign aid agency hit close to home in Illinois
Presidential adviser Elon Musk conceded during an Oval Office news conference last week that an unsubstantiated claim made to justify the Trump administration’s freeze on federal foreign aid might not have been true. Amplified by Musk and President Donald …