Musk said they "accidentally" turned off Ebola defense funds and then immediately restored it when they foundout.
Craig Spencer, an ER doctor says that's commpletely untrue, and he should know. Spencer is the NY doctor who contracted Ebola in 2014 during an out,break in Guinea, and survived it.
Spencer says when Uganda had an outbreak on Jan 29, the US didn't send an expert for the first time in over a decade, because they were NOT allowed to. They didn't do anything they would normally have done because between DOGE killing funding, Trump pulling the US out of WHO and other stuff, there is no help for Uganda because "we are not allowed to help."
Spencer said it might not be now, might not be tomorrow but "we will regret this."
Spencer is on Rachel Maddow and he saied what Musk and Trump are doing it pretending they intend to refund these groups but they're actually stalling the courts long enough that the groups like USAID and WHO are completely destroyed so they can't just be restarted. Then they can say well we want to restore the funds but they said they can't start back up, so we're using that money we saved to do something else.