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Elon Musk said DOGE “will make mistakes” on its crusade to weed out government “waste,” but some mistakes could cost lives, warns co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy. Amid massive cuts to USAID, Musk revealed that Ebola prevention was “briefly canceled.”
“I think we all want Ebola prevention, so we restored the Ebola prevention immediately and there was no interruption,” said Musk as he hijacked President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting. “We won’t be perfect, but when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly.”
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Moodie added, “Except in government, when you make those kinds of mistakes, people actually f–--ing die. It isn’t like a glitch on your broken down f–--ing social media site.”
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Levy added, “This is the kind of mistake that should, I don’t know, land you in prison. You can’t be doing things like this and getting away with it.”
Plus! Imara Jones, journalist and CEO of TransLash Media, discusses the Trump administration’s attacks on trans rights and a failure to respond to broader threats on democracy by Democratic leaders.
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