I was DOGEd from USAID: 14 Million Will Die

How Many People Did DOGE Really Kill?

This week, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna said that Elon Musk should be held accountable for “4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.” Back in February 2025, Musk bragged about putting the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) “through the wood chipper” in just one weekend with his Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) team, gleefully destroying the decades-old instituti…

I was DOGEd from USAID: 14 Million Will Die

Tulsa, OK (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – JD Vance recently sat down with “Interesting Times” podcast host Ross Douthat. When Ross Douthat pointed out that the Trump administration had been “more hostile than any prior Republican administration…to the way we do humanitarian aid,” the vice president argued that conservative or centrist parties “keep winning landslide elections in Latin America” because [before President Trump retook offi…