Elon Musk said the DOGE operation accidentally cut off Ebola prevention funds but quickly reversed course. There's ample evidence to the contrary.

USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

At the Trump administration's first Cabinet meeting, Elon Musk admitted that DOGE cut off funding for Ebola prevention efforts. Musk says DOGE has “restored” funding, but the Washington Post reports some officials refute that.

Don Beyer of Virginia wasted no time taking aim at Musk for his chuckling comment about an often fatal virus that has devastating effects on the communities that experience an outbreak. “An average person who did something as incompetent as ‘accidentally cancelling Ebola prevention’ wouldn’t be applauded,

Elon Musk admits DOGE 'accidentally' cancelled USAID's work to prevent Ebola Source: MSNBC His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was also found dead in their New Mexico home. Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 64, were found deceased in their New Mexico home on Wednesday morning. They were married for 34 years.

Elon Musk defended DOGE’s budget cuts, claiming USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts were restored, but reports suggest the program remains largely frozen, raising concerns about global health security.

“This is bunk from Elon,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former USAID official who led the agency’s Ebola response during a 2014–2015 outbreak in West Africa. “They have laid off most of the experts, they’re bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.