What will define Elon Musk’s legacy? Doge cuts to USAID Ebola programs

According to The Guardian, experts say cuts to US Agency for International Development programs — reductions Elon Musk championed through the so-called Doge effort last year — have hampered the response to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and are linked to significant numbers of deaths. Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official who oversaw the agency's Ebola response a decade ago, said Musk's recent flurry of posts about USAID on X has, if nothing else, renewed attention on the consequences of dismantling the agency. The report frames the fallout as a defining question over Musk's legacy.

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