The New York Times published on 30 May 2025 a commentary titled "Elon Musk's Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death" by Michelle Goldberg.
Elon Musk's DOGE terminated more than 80 percent of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) grants and dismantled the foreign aid agency. One estimate places the number of deaths as a result of these decisions already at 300.000. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists there have been no deaths.
Comment: It is impossible to know how many deaths have occurred as a result of ending or cutting back USAID's life saving foreign aid programs. But anyone with extensive experience in the Global South, especially Africa, knows there have been deaths and the death rate will almost certainly increase going forward so long as these cuts remain in place.
