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3. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 10:10 AM

Jul 1

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.

The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

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As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

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Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years, report says [View all] muriel_volestrangler Jul 1 OP

MAGA Hitler numbers! wolfie001 Jul 1 #1

The GOP can't be shamed by this. It is their goal. travelingthrulife Jul 1 #2

"refused to accept Christ." I guess that is a Missionary's mission. Jam it down their throats. Crusades inspired. n/t Evolve Dammit Jul 1 #12

Shamelessness Seinan Sensei Jul 1 #13

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children Botany Jul 1 #3

But if you want to be worse than Stalin Turbineguy Jul 1 #4

He's literally a merchant of death. n/t SpankMe Jul 1 #5

Hope each and ever one of them is MAGArat. republianmushroom Jul 1 #6

Can't quite spell a paticular word where what a person does is is because the have No Conscious... electric_blue68 Jul 1 #7

"Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years" LudwigPastorius Jul 1 #8

I had no idea America was saving so many millions of lives around the world mathematic Jul 1 #9

I don't know when Trump admitted he felt like stopping the vast majority of non-military aid muriel_volestrangler Jul 1 #10

Ending all foreign aid has been a long simmering goal of all sorts of isolationists. mathematic Jul 1 #11