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Elon Musk panics as DOGE-cut bodies start piling up: 'He's in damage control mode'
Billionaire Power, Human CostThe Power Was Not AbstractThis story is not about a noisy billionaire having an online tantrum. It is about Elon Musk exercising real institutional power inside the Trump administration through DOGE, then trying to rewrite the record after the consequences became harder to bury. He oversaw roughly $60 billion in foreign aid cuts and helped leave USAID with only a handful of surviving projects. That is not commentary. That is administrative force with casualties attached.The Decision Was the CrimeThe crucial fact is not that Musk bragged about “feeding USAID to the…
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