Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn't True.

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Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

Roda Abdullay, 14, holds her 8-month-old brother who is suffering from malnutrition.

By Nicholas Kristof

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share

"SNIP............

As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well. “No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.”
That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and President Trump are already leading children to die.

Peter Donde was a 10-year-old infected with H.I.V. from his mother during childbirth. But American aid kept Peter strong even as his parents died from AIDS. A program started by President George W. Bush called PEPFAR saved 26 million lives from AIDS, and one was Peter’s.

Under PEPFAR, an outreach health worker ensured that Peter and other AIDS orphans got their medicines. Then in January, Trump and Musk effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, perhaps illegally, and that PEPFAR outreach program ended. Orphans were on their own.

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[Shellback Squid]

1. "Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut" no one that mattered to him

[Biophilic]

2. What does one say in the face of such cruelty? How does one address it?

[applegrove]

3. 12 cents a day. USAID was 1% of the budget. Or something.

[Biophilic]

4. Yes, it makes no sense as far as the budget goes, so it is basically about cruelty and racism.

[applegrove]

7. Yup.

[elocs]

5. I'm sure that people have died right here in the US as a result of Musk's actions.

Just because we haven't heard of them doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Have there been suicides yet from those who couldn't deal with the thought of losing everything they have because they were going to have their SS or Medicaid taken from them.

[Johonny]

6. No one he cares about, which is a short short list

And you aren't on it.