Former USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency.

For more than 12 years, Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, rising to become one of the agency’s top global health officials. Then, in a matter of weeks, he watched as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) dismantled the six-decade-old agency responsible for delivering American foreign aid around the world.

Enrich documented the experience in his book Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what happened behind the scenes, and its devastating consequences.

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  • jtrek@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    I’m reminded of how old video game Dragon Age had Justice and Vengeance as two different manifestations of the same spirit.

    I don’t think we’ll see justice in our life time. Not to make up for the evils enacted by Musk and those like him. But we might see him suffer and die in terror, and that would be a delight.

    the worst thing you can do is execute Elon Musk

    Doing nothing would be worse

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
      14·
      2 days ago

      But we might see him suffer and die in terror, and that would be a delight.

      You need to read some better novels and engage with art deeper if you expect this to be fulfilling, this is the oldest trap of all according to storytellers the world over.

      Schadenfreude is fine, but you are after an illusion and you risk trivializing violence in pursuing it.