California congressman Ro Khanna, 49, recently urged on a podcast for Elon Musk “to answer” for the “4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling [the U.S. Agency for International Development] USAID.”
The Democratic representative from Silicon Valley was referring to the role played by the world’s first trillionaire as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the cost-cutting initiative he led for several months at the behest of U.S. President Donald Trump. The estimate of 4.5 million deaths comes from a scientific paper published in The Lancet in 2025.
Following the podcast, Musk
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