When Elon Musk started his Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE), one of his first targets was USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency that sent food, medicine and health workers to the world’s neediest nations. Musk and his DOGE shut down USAID. On February 3, 2025, Musk boasted on Twitter: We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could [have] gone to some great parties. Did that instead. Clearly…
After the US sharply reduced its aid to USAID last year, an estimated 700,000 people have died worldwide, according to the agency's former chairman. That number is only expected to rise: more than 14 million people are expected to die by 2030.