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17. Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 12:00 PM
Jul 15

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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What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

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.

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Their racism is on full on display.

“They” would rather let the food rot or burn it than give it to black people in Africa. This is not only
Trump’s racism but also Elon Musk’s South Afrikaner beliefs too. They also let tens of thousands of
of kits that keep starving people from dying from diarrhea go to waste too. Hell, they are just n*****s.
I wonder if Trump’s Christian supporters understand that their Jesus was black.

These are Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin type of #s.

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





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WHY? This is beyond disgusting. nt babylonsister Jul 15 #1
Obscene tonkatoy8888 Jul 15 #2
This physically hurts my heart Danmel Jul 15 #3
Unforgivable. yorkster Jul 15 #4
Is there anything we as citizens can do about it? Open it up to donations by other entities? efhmc Jul 15 #5
Excellent idea. We've got to do something. What about a liberal millionaire buying more food? wordstroken Jul 15 #16
This is consistent with the Trumpian policy of killing black and brown people. patphil Jul 15 #6
Trump's America! MaineBlueBear Jul 15 #7
The whole Trump regime can burn too, IMHO. CaptainTruth Jul 15 #8
Just when you think they can't go lower they go lower kimbutgar Jul 15 #9
One 3auld6phart Jul 15 #14
G.O.P. is rabidly anti-christian BoRaGard Jul 15 #10
Such evil and cruelty evemac Jul 15 #11
Waste Wild blueberry Jul 15 #12
Because empathy is the problem and, apparently, common decency. hay rick Jul 15 #13
So let me get this straight... GiqueCee Jul 15 #15
Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths -- most of them children Botany Jul 15 #17
Further Proof that the Shitstain in Chief is also the .... ihaveaquestion Jul 15 #18
What would Jesus burn RealityBasedNewYorkr Jul 15 #19
More cruelty from the pro-life, pro-child party. paulrevere2018 Jul 15 #20
So perfectly MAGA-cruel. So perfectly Trump-Revengeful democrank Jul 15 #21
Hey Democrats in office -- how about some hell-raising? Blue Owl Jul 15 #22
You want to see evil?...This is evil. Scalded Nun Jul 15 #23
darkness darkness (R) Garbage values lead to garbage results BoRaGard Jul 16 #24
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