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

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.

This is what Mass Murder looks like.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      4 months ago

      Imagine witnessing an act of horrific gun violence and feeling good later when the perpetrator was caught and faced justice and then turning on the TV and in the wake of that trauma seeing the annoying face of Elon Musk, someone who has committed a far more horrific degree of mass murder than what you just witnessed being displayed across US media as if he should not be in jail for doing the damage he knowingly did.

      All forms of violence are bad, but the ones that scare me the most are the ones that are easily made invisible to the conscience of someone in power demanding them for pointless and futile reasons.

      Demolishing healthcare for no reason with no plan in place to replace it to provide equivalent care, knowing the damage it will do from the deep established body of public health research, is mass murder there is no other reasonable position to take here.

      • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        The worst part doge saved what, a few billion at most? The current US administration has stolen more than that, so a few billionaires can make more money? That should be enough for citizens to be angry let alone their other shit.

        The Iran conflict alone is least a billion dollars a day when active… for worse than what was agreed upon before. Go US for another shot in the foot but wrecks the entire world’s economy and makes you look worse on the world stage while making Iran stronger. Making things great still?