""It's not just that these people were ignorant of global health and international development, they just did not know how the government works. So when they would encounter obstacles, they would spin around in a circle and have no idea who to talk to and where to go.""
""By early February, the group had taken over the agency, shut down its emails, and left tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid funding in limbo.""
In early 2025, DOGE aimed to cut government spending, impacting USAID severely. Despite a waiver for humanitarian assistance, funding was halted, leading to staff reductions from 10,000 to 300. By July, USAID merged with the State Department, resulting in an estimated 700,000 deaths due to funding cuts. Nicholas Enrich, a whistleblower and former assistant administrator, criticized DOGE's lack of understanding of global health and government operations, detailing the agency's destruction in his book, Into the Wood Chipper.
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