Destruction of world's largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim

Destruction of world’s largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim

Elon Musk, leader of the Trump administration’s now-disbanded Department of Government Efficiency, must sit for depositions along with senior State Department officials over their role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Pointing to findings that Musk had made the decision to break up USAID – one of the world’s largest humanitarian programs – despite lacking formal authority or official approval – District Judge Theodore Chuang wrote that there was “no alternative” than for Musk and other officials to provide testimony regarding their decision-making process.

The ruling represents a win for a group of anonymous former USAID employees who are suing Musk, DOGE and State Department officials over the closure.

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    333·
    16 hours ago

    Maybe trial him for mass murder as this costed an estimate of 600.000 to 1.200.000 people their lives.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      8·
      15 hours ago

      I could be wrong here, but are you sure that’s not a projected outcome due to the fallout vs present has happened. I don’t doubt it will, just not sure it has.

      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        132·
        15 hours ago

        The numbers I remembered were somewhat wrong. But here’s an article about it.

        The projections are it could cost 9.4 million people there lives by 2030 according to this article and 22 million by 2030 according to this article.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          4·
          7 hours ago

          Thanks.

          Also I didnt know this part at all

          The slashing of US foreign assistance was followed by cuts by the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and other developed nations, which are set to take effect this year and next year, compounding the impact.

          You’d have hoped the international community would have also stepped up to help fill in the gaps, not that they would ever have been able to fully fill it. That’s the opposite.