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New York Times columnist David Brooks suggested Elon Musk belongs on a list of history’s greatest mass murderers, including Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin due to DOGE’S cuts to USAID.
"So far, 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected; 6,000 children are dead because of what Doge did. That’s just PEPFAR, the HIV. You add them all up, that’s 300,000 dead, and we’re four months in. You add that all up and accumulate that over four years the number of dead grows very high," Brooks said on PBS News Hour
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Sorting Out the Facts on 'Waste and Abuse' at USAID - FactCheck.org
How many deaths because these project were cut???
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"So far, 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected; 6,000 children are dead because of what Doge did. That’s just PEPFAR, the HIV. You add them all up, that’s 300,000 dead, and we’re four months in. You add that all up and accumulate that over four years the number of dead grows very high," Brooks said on PBS News Hour
Important Points:
- Claim's Origin: The claim of 300,000 deaths originated from a projection model by Brooke Nichols, a mathematical health modeler at Boston University.
- Nature of the Figure: This figure is a projection of potential deaths, not a confirmed count, as acknowledged by Nichols herself due to limitations in tracking real-time data in affected regions.
- Criticism: Musk himself, among others, has criticized the claim, calling it "liar/idiot" and stating there have been "Zero people have died" due to USAID cuts.
- Context: The claim is made in the context of the Trump administration's efforts to cut USAID funding, which they argued was riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse.
Sorting Out the Facts on 'Waste and Abuse' at USAID - FactCheck.org
- "An Irish musical gets $70,000 of my tax money?
- "EVs in Vietnam get $2.5 million?
- "$6 million to fund Egypt tourism??
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
- $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
- $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
- $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
- Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
- “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
- Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
- Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
How many deaths because these project were cut???

At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep
For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the
