Musk Admits DOGE Dorks Cut Ebola Prevention But Says It's No Biggie; Mistakes
Daily Kos, Feb. 26, 2025. Ed.
Co-President Elon Musk on Wednesday admitted that the shady Dept. of Government Efficiency that he leads but doesn't actually run has made some serious errors, including "briefly" canceling Ebola prevention efforts before reversing the decision. Musk made the comment during Trump’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where the unqualified cast of losers Trump picked to lead the country's federal agencies heaped praise upon Dear Leader in a way that would make a noncultist's skin crawl.
"We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we do make mistakes we will fix it quickly," Musk said during the meeting, which he commandeered in a way that should make everyone question who exactly is running things in the Trump administration. So for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola, Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately and there was no interruption," Musk said nonchalantly.
The United States has provided millions of dollars to prevent the spread of Ebola, a horrifying virus that causes organ failure and internal bleeding, leading to a slow and painful death in as many as 50% of people who contract it, according to the World Health Organization (which Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from). Musk's admission that DOGE’s efforts to cut the federal budget by gutting the U.S. Agency for International Development led to the cancellation of Ebola prevention efforts is the first time the country learned of the "mistake."
But it isn't the only potentially deadly "mistake" DOGE has made. For example, the DOGE-led mass purge of federal workers caused the layoffs of 300 people who help oversee the country's nuclear weapons stockpile. The government had to rush to hire those people back or else risk the country's national security.
The government had to rush to hire those people back or else risk the country's national security. The Dept. of Agriculture also had to rush to hire back the fired federal workers who were working on bird flu mitigation efforts. The bird flu is currently ravaging chicken populations in the U.S., leading to skyrocketing egg prices and shortages... - More,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/26/2306423/-Musk-admits-DOGE-dorks-cut-Ebola-prevention-but-says-it-s-no-biggie
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