Elon Musk is countering claims that DOGE reviews ended critical medical aid by stressing that only unverified recipients were paused, while confirmed programs simply moved under State Department oversight rather than disappearing.
ro khanna and a pack of bloodthirsty podcasters are laundering a contested lancet "study" into the discourse as settled fact — but it's just propaganda https://www.piratewires.com/p/no-elon-and-doge-did-not-sentence
A Lancet model projecting millions of extra deaths from the cuts remains central to criticism, yet the analysis relies on historical correlations and carries wide uncertainty bands that Musk-aligned voices call overstated.
With USAID largely wound down, the practical question is whether State Department administration can maintain the same delivery speed and reach without new verification delays or funding gaps.
Negative users accused Elon Musk of cruelty and child deaths through DOGE cuts to USAID funding, while positive users praised him for fighting government corruption and waste.
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All DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.
If anyone had actually died as a result of DOGE, their names would be worldwide headline news!
On the other hand, USAID did help fund the Wuhan Virology Institute, which caused the deaths of millions, and the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.
Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power.
The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts.
But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology).
Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades.
@planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda).
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Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power.
The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts.
But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology).
Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades.
@planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda).
Full story 👇
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@PirateWires The @elonmusk lawsuit against @RoKhanna should absolutely proceed so the inherent false pretenses and corruption of USAID can be catalogued in excruciating detail on the public record.
@PirateWires They’re just projecting to hide their own flaws
@elonmusk You know the entire world despises you, right? You’re a pathetic piece of shit. The richest man in the world can’t buy friends. Only your bots and paid influencers that promote your bullshit.
@elonmusk If DOGE didn’t do anything wrong, Elon wouldn’t constantly be defending it.
@elonmusk In a world where there exists a trillionaire, and where there are children around the world dying of starvation, is a juxtaposition that should outrage everyone.
@PirateWires 98% of University teachers are extremely left wing. They are not shy in frauding their research to attack whoever they deem a threat to their worldview.
@elonmusk FACTS. Pass it on!
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@elonmusk Damage control much Elmo? 🤪
@PirateWires How much did Ro Khanna make from USAID fraud, an investigation should be launched into how he amassed his fortune.
@PirateWires USAID ≠ US aid.
USAID = US Agency for International Development.
Extending US influence around the world, psychological "warfare", etc.
Created by JFK (a big special ops advocate) during the Cold War to fight communism. Unfortunately, it turned into a vessel for corruption.
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@elonmusk @RoKhanna is desperately trying to make Elon look like a villain to sell his 5% billionaire tax.
That’s all this is about.
He’s a fraud.
@elonmusk These vocal leftist propagandists and globalists will go to great lengths to regain control, all the while claiming to despise the wealthy, yet secretly enriching themselves at the taxpayers' expense.
@elonmusk
@elonmusk “If anyone had died as a result of DOGE their names would be worldwide news!” Is giving crazy “if I committed a murder I would have been smart enough to wear gloves” vibes. That’s not evidence of innocence, genius.
