India, July 20 -- On Saturday, senior US politician Congressman Gregory Meeks rebutted President Donald Trump's claim that American government funds had been spent to boost voter turnout in India.

"The President claimed there was a wasteful $21 million dollar grant to India. That grant never existed," said Meeks in a speech that slammed Trump's cuts to foreign assistance spending.

Meeks, who belongs to the Democratic Party, is the senior most opposition lawmaker on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, America's lower house.

Earlier this year, President Trump repeatedly claimed that the United States Agency for International Development spent $21 million dollars on a grant to boost voter turnout in ...