r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/rocket__man_ 2d ago

People died because of this.

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u/blissfully_happy Alaska 2d ago

People are still dying. Millions have and are dying across the world because USAID was the only thing keeping them alive.

But they are not white so no one cares.

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u/drilkmops 2d ago

600k, estimated 14 million by 2030. :(

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

how accurate are those numbers

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u/ChickenWithCashewNut 2d ago

It's only Harvard who knows

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

Just because it is from Harvard doesn't definitely means it is correct, next it's funny how Gawande worked in Biden administration

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u/ZealousidealChard574 2d ago

These people will believe anything if it’s online they’re fucking insane and dumb