"Musk has said his critics "cannot cite a single name of someone who died" and "If there were, it would be worldwide headline news!"

When confronted with the names " including those of children who died because of the cuts " Musk called a journalist "an utter piece of shit and a liar" and "utterly evil".

Musk has claimed, without evidence, that US tax dollars went to arming militants and "corrupt politicians".

Musk's cuts, through the short-lived US "department of government efficiency" (Doge), have come under renewed scrutiny during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Last year, Musk admitted to "accidentally" cutting Ebola detection and response programs."

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"Musk's demolition of USAID, and the resulting suffering and death, "is going to be a defining part of his legacy, and I do wonder if that's why he's scrambling so hard to rewrite that history now", Konyndyk said.

Musk took a model he used in his companies to "cut until people scream, and then when people scream, you've cut too far, and then you restore", Konyndyk said.

"That's not how public funding works. Here the cost is literal human lives."

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Musk, Trump, and all the Republicans who support them are responsible for these deaths, and all the rest of the misery that DOGE caused in this country and around the world.