Jesse Singal
elon: lol i'm skipping parties to feed this evil program into a woodchipper people who aren't morons: people will actually die, you realize? elon: no one will die i am just engaging in minor common-sense reforms
Elon Musk
No one has died as result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding. No one. Nor are these funding resumption actions due to pressure from K-Mart (I’m not promoting him to Target yet) Favs or some legacy news journalist. I give zero fucks what the legacy press says and have made that abundantly clear. There are two parts to resuming funding: 1. Releasing the pause on the contracts. That was done ~2 weeks ago regarding Ebola/diseases and foodstuffs, which were part of a large block of paused contracts. What I said at the cabinet meeting was accurate. 2. The money itself getting processed through various State, Treasury and Fed accounts and then ultimately getting to the recipient’s bank account. This takes a few weeks.