During a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Globe reporter learned how the billionaire is bringing broadband to this desperately poor country even as his DOGE cuts ravage its health care system.

Elon Musk’s wood-chipping of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to leave piles of bodies behind in its wake, a new study suggests. Scientists have calculated that recent funding cuts to USAID could lead to millions of preventable deaths worldwide over the next half-decade.

One man has consistently cheered and helped execute the funding cuts that have exacerbated suffering and death. In February, Elon Musk, acting in his capacity as a leader of DOGE, declared that USAID was “a criminal organization,” argued that it was “time for it to die,” and bragged that he’d “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”

The president previously rescinded his nomination of Jared Isaacman as the space agency’s next leader, citing the entrepreneur’s ties to Elon Musk.

Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government.

One of the first significant changes DOGE, a task force created by Trump via executive order, made to federal spending was the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development ...

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Elon Musk previously served in an unpaid role as head of DOGE during the early months of US President Donald Trump’s second term., US News - Times Now

“Elon Musk has left Washington, but he leaves a legacy of suffering because Trump let him dismantle USAID, which did enormous good by fighting disease, building resilient societies, and undermining the sort of autocracies that Trump hopes to build at home,” someone said.

That was a 2024 initiative the United States Agency for International Development started after the 2021 military coup in the Southeast Asian country.