Elon Musk claimed that dismantling USAID would not result in deaths, but fact-checkers have disputed this assertion. A February 2026 analysis published in The Lancet projected that such an action could lead to 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, with tens of thousands already estimated to have died. AI
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