The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

“Zero died because of DOGE. Zero. Point. Zero.” That remarkable claim is from Elon Musk’s interview last week with The Economist, in which he reiterated one of his favorite new claims: His Department of Government Efficiency’s huge cuts to international humanitarian aid did not result in the death of any children abroad. This isn’t meant as a vague or hyperbolic exaggeration. Musk’s assertion is quite emphatically that not a single child—or even a fraction of a child, as his strange “zero point…