Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46592987

For more than 12 years, Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, rising to become one of the agency’s top global health officials. Then, in a matter of weeks, he watched as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) dismantled the six-decade-old agency responsible for delivering American foreign aid around the world.

Enrich documented the experience in his book Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what happened behind the scenes, and its devastating consequences.

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  • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    10 days ago

    Maybe they’re onto something with these illegal immigrants ruining America? Elon has boasted how his brother and himself violated their student visas to work on a tech startup that would eventually become PayPal. I am not a lawyer but that feels like well into felony territory?

      • Triumph@fedia.io
        10·
        10 days ago

        As long as you make enough money to sufficiently grease the right palms, you are immune to prosecution.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 days ago

          sufficiently grease the right palms

          Or the right poles. Melania was not particularly a moneymaker when she is alleged to have violated the terms of her initial visitor visa to work as a model.

    • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      10 days ago

      That would be nice, but out of him actually working on stuff, vs actually just throwing money at things that already existed, nearly breaking them with bad decisions and getting fired, or bought out before he sinks it all. The latter is a more accurate representation. Everything is made up, anyway I think enough people agree billionaires shouldn’t exist, that’s enough in and of itself.

      • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        On that note, I can’t tell if Musk has fired whoever it is that has gotten Space-X as far as it has so far. Maybe the starship project will turn out to be their cybertruck?