At a Trump administration cabinet meeting on Wednesday, unelected South African centibillionaire Elon Musk joked about how his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “accidentally ...

“So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately. And there was no interruption.” Yet current and former USAID officials said that Musk was wrong: USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been ...

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption.” Experts say the tech billionaire’s reassurance doesn’t paint an accurate picture. USAID has effectively been ...

USAID's Ebola prevention efforts have been largely frozen since the agency was mostly shuttered last month. Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola after ...

One of those mistakes was reportedly killing a USAID program that was working to stop Ebola. "We will make mistakes," Musk said. "We won't be perfect, but when we make mistakes we'll fix it very ...

For example, with USAID one of the things we accidentally canceled, very briefly, was Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Musk’s assertion that his slash-and-burn assault on USAID had no negative ...

Enrich warns of preventable deaths due to USAID dismantling Trump's aid freeze affects Ebola, malaria, and tuberculosis efforts DOGE blocks USAID payments despite waiver for lifesaving aid March 2 ...

USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been largely halted since Musk and his DOGE allies moved last month to gut the global-assistance agency and freeze its outgoing payments, they said.

Staff from South Sudan's Health Ministry pose with protective suits during a drill for Ebola preparedness conducted ... for International Development (USAID) (of which DRC was previously a major ...