Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Duke Mu said:
Oh, and Musk "accidentally" fired Ebola prevention workers in Uganda.
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'We will make mistakes': Elon Musk says DOGE accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention, restored it​


Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention but then quickly restored it. Musk’s comments that come amid a raging controversy on USAID funding and job cuts said that they will make mistakes and won't be perfect.
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"We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes we'll fix it very quickly. For example, with USAID one of the things we accidentally cancelled, very briefly, was Ebola prevention. We restored the Ebola prevention immediately, there was no interruption. But, we do need to move quickly if we are to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in the financial year 2026. This requires saving $4 billion per day, everyday from now through the end of September," he said.

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Elon Musk DOGE USAID - ‘We will make mistakes’: Elon Musk says DOGE accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention, restored it - BusinessToday

Donald Trump, who introduced Elon Musk as a "tremendously successful guy" who is working really hard with DOGE, said, “He’s sacrificing a lot. He’s getting a lot of praise, I’ll tell you, but he’s also getting hit.”
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ZenMode said:

'We will make mistakes': Elon Musk says DOGE accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention, restored it​


Tech billionaire Elon Musk said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention but then quickly restored it. Musk’s comments that come amid a raging controversy on USAID funding and job cuts said that they will make mistakes and won't be perfect.
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"We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes we'll fix it very quickly. For example, with USAID one of the things we accidentally cancelled, very briefly, was Ebola prevention. We restored the Ebola prevention immediately, there was no interruption. But, we do need to move quickly if we are to achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction in the financial year 2026. This requires saving $4 billion per day, everyday from now through the end of September," he said.

www.businesstoday.in

Elon Musk DOGE USAID - ‘We will make mistakes’: Elon Musk says DOGE accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention, restored it - BusinessToday

Donald Trump, who introduced Elon Musk as a "tremendously successful guy" who is working really hard with DOGE, said, “He’s sacrificing a lot. He’s getting a lot of praise, I’ll tell you, but he’s also getting hit.”
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Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts​



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So is Musk accurate in his description of "accidentally" canceling and then restoring America's "Ebola prevention" efforts?

Public health experts say his comments were partly right: U.S. efforts were indeed interrupted.

But he got some facts wrong, they say: U.S. support has not been fully restored.

"I disagree fully, completely, wholly, that they recognized the mistake and put it back," says Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency physician and professor at Brown University School of Public Health, who has worked on Ebola for more than a decade and responded to Ebola outbreaks in Africa. He says he's in regular contact with officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who work on Ebola as well as physicians on the ground in Uganda, where an outbreak was declared on January 30, with nine confirmed cases and one death — of a nurse — so far.

As of early February, the U.S. was not providing funding to support testing and port screenings in Uganda because of Trump's freeze on almost all U.S. foreign assistance.

… Within USAID's Global Health Bureau there was a team of people that specialized in high risk outbreaks, like Ebola.

"Virtually all of those people have been pushed out of the agency, and they have not been brought back. Only a very small handful — like low single digits — remain from what had been something like a 30 person team," saysJeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak. He is now the president of Refugees International.

Konyndyk used to lead what was called the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID, which deployed on the ground in disasters like Ebola.

"The whole disaster response capability at USAID no longer exists. All of those people are gone. The operation centers that they worked out of are shut down. They can't even access the Ronald Reagan Building where those operation centers sit. That lease has been handed over to Customs and Border Protection," he says.

He called Musk's reassurance that things have been restored "total garbage." …”
 

U.S. Canceled Work to Contain a Serious Ebola Outbreak​

The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective gear for health workers, among other measures. Work had been held up for weeks, contrary to Elon Musk’s claim on Wednesday.

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U.S. Canceled Work to Contain a Serious Ebola Outbreak

The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective gear for health workers, among other measures. Work had been held up for weeks, contrary to Elon Musk’s claim on Wednesday.
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“…In theory, waivers allowed for some work to continue on containing pathogens like Ebola, Marburg and mpox, as well as preparedness for bird flu. But very little money had actually been delivered.

Few organizations providing those services had the financial reserves to continue, and even fewer trusted that they would be reimbursed.

Their fears may have been justified. On Wednesday night, the Supreme Court’s chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that U.S.A.I.D. and the State Department did not need to immediately pay for more than $1.5 billion for work that had been already completed.

The work underway without those payments was interrupted, contrary to Mr. Musk’s claim. …”
 
CHAMTRAIN said:
It's become apparent to me that "waste, fraud, and abuse" is not Musk wagging Trump. It's likely a long thought out GOP strategy on how to sell the unsellable to the masses. How do we get the poors to cheer for the cutting of programs that benefit them? How do we get them to celebrate slashing Medicaid? Food stamps? Consumer protections? Clean air? We will cage it as waste and fraud, all while sneaking through tax cuts for the wealthy.

This is just a well thought out strategy in motion, the rug pull will happen in the next few months when the DOD budget isn't touched and the "mandatory" cuts (aka removing the waste and fraud) to entitlement programs set in. It's being executed masterfully.
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And the masses responded how? They bought into the propaganda and bot spam online and even when presented with evidence to the contrary, still decided to vote for Trump.

Trump voters are selfish, indignant, ignorant and arrogant. Until they feel real pain, nothing will wake them from their delusion.
 

Trump administration and Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say​

In a trove of statements released late Thursday, federal employees said that the mass layoff was discussed in meetings they attended this month.

www.nbcnews.com

Trump administration and Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say

In a trove of statements released late Thursday, federal employees said that the mass layoff was discussed in meetings they attended this month.
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CHAMTRAIN said:
It's become apparent to me that "waste, fraud, and abuse" is not Musk wagging Trump. It's likely a long thought out GOP strategy on how to sell the unsellable to the masses. How do we get the poors to cheer for the cutting of programs that benefit them? How do we get them to celebrate slashing Medicaid? Food stamps? Consumer protections? Clean air? We will cage it as waste and fraud, all while sneaking through tax cuts for the wealthy.

This is just a well thought out strategy in motion, the rug pull will happen in the next few months when the DOD budget isn't touched and the "mandatory" cuts (aka removing the waste and fraud) to entitlement programs set in. It's being executed masterfully.
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The whole thing is one big grift to benefit themselves.
 
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