He's directly responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people via DOGE and their abrupt withdrawal and support of food aid.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

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brightball 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Those estimates are highly disputed because they all come from modeled projections, not anything attributed on the ground.

If a death toll like that was real and attributable it would be the only thing in the news, 24/7, until the next election.

The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued. Significant insider pork was cut leading to a lot of very loud people complaining with hyperbole in their outrage.

Elon remains the most effective person in history at wielding wealth for the benefit of mankind. It is not particularly close and he has banked more credibility for moon-shot efforts (pun intended) than anyone on the planet.

	▲	esseph 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued. Source? All the recent data I can find shows a more than 80% decline in global food aid, education, and vaccinations, as of February 2026. Education aid for 23 million children, 95 million lost access to basic healthcare, and from March 2025 to Feb 2026, an estimated ~3 million preventable deaths caused by this. Sources: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/making-foreign-a... https://firstfocus.org/resource/fact-sheet-usaid-cuts-total-... https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-tol... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/04/africa-trump... https://www.rescue.org/article/innovation-vs-cuts-humanitari...

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asdfasvea 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Directly? I do not think it means what you think it means.

Hate the guy all you want, even for this, but don't try and juice it another 20% with emotional words that are ultimately incorrect.

	▲	esseph 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Okay let me juice you with some "emotional words". There is a direct line from his decisions to more than ten times the number of Americans KIA in the entirety of the Vietnam war. Argue about how it happened all you want, the bodies are at his fucking feet. CEOs and leadership of organizations are accountable for their decisions. "Emotional" How about get a fucking working conscience. Hundreds of thousands are dead, two thirds of which were kids. Children.