"Elon Musk boasted in early February that, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” Musk is gone but the White House budget request for next year pencils in a cut of two-thirds to global health and humanitarian funding. Foreign aid has a mixed reputation, it is true, but that cut would plausibly cause a million deaths in the next 12 months alone." Stats from @TimHarford https://timharford.com/2025/07/the-many-tragedies-of-ending-us-aid/ #usaidcut #dogecuts #musk