A Testy Musk Attacks Claims DOGE’s Cuts Killed Children. But Studies Paint Grim Picture.
Kristof and other reporters say the aid cuts have already killed more than 1,200 people, while Musk rejects claims of any deaths.
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Journalists Set the Record Straight After Musk Claims ‘Not a Single' Child Died From DOGE’s USAID Cuts
As Elon Musk continues to claim that "not a single" child has died as a result of his foreign aid cuts at the beginning of the second Trump administration, journalists—including ones who witnessed the consequences of the policy firsthand—are correcting the record.
Elon Musk demands one name of someone killed by aid cuts, gets a list
Elon Musk demanded that critics name "a single" person who died because of DOGE-driven foreign aid cuts, and then experienced the rare online phenomenon of receiving exactly what he asked for. This is the hideous little trick at the center of austerity cruelty: demand one body, then pretend the machine is innocent because the bodies are scattered across countries, clinics, villages, supply chains, and months of slow collapse. — Read the rest The…
Elon Musk demands 'single' DOGE death example — then goes silent when given the body count
As reporting increasingly suggests that the U.S. federal aid cuts spearheaded by trillionaire Elon Musk last year have led to preventable deaths abroad – and potentially millions by 2030 – the Tesla CEO issued his critics a challenge to “cite a single name of someone who died,” but grew notably sile...
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