Elon Musk let slip that his Department of Government Efficiency accidentally canceled Ebola prevention when the tech billionaire cut funding to the United States Agency for International Development.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt “pause” to all U.S. foreign aid, alongside his adviser Elon Musk’s attack on the personnel and institutions of the United States Agency for International Development, h

Current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued Elon Musk and his cost-cutting operation, levying the novel argument that the world’s richest man should have been confirmed by the Senate before wielding such enormous power.

As Elon Musk moves to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency’s support for the discovery of novel viruses in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology has come under an intense new spotlight.

Elon Musk appeared to troll the United States Agency for International Development with a post about circumcision discounts. The billionaire overseeing President Donald Trump’s Department of Government

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

Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers who have been fired or placed on leave as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency are being given a brief window Thursday and Friday to clear out their workspaces.

The billionaire adviser to the president spoke at the beginning of the meeting with the heads of agencies such as the state department and Pentagon.

Elon Musk offered wide-ranging comments about DOGE, DEI and AI via a videocall to the World Governments Summit in Dubai.

Elon Musk said DOGE will make mistakes. He said an example is how the team briefly cut USAID funding for Ebola prevention.

The work of the U.S. DOGE Service bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the world’s richest person, even if he’s not formally the administrator.