How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
The episode examines the catastrophic consequences of the dissolution of USAID under the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which led to an estimated 700,000 deaths due to the collapse of life-saving global health p
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