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Bono and Joe Rogan During the visit of the U2 singer in the podcast on Friday, contested the humanitarian effects of the cuts of Doge. Especially about the planned deletion of USAID.
Bono: “300,000 could die from USAID cuts
As a result, Bono Rogan confronted – a friend of the now outgoing Doge bosses Elon Musk-with a study. This warns that 300,000 people worldwide in the cuts USAID The food, clean water and medical relief supplies could die into over 120 countries.
“This is not America”
“Boots and warehouses rot,” said Bono in “The Joe Rogan Experience”. “There are 50,000 tons of food. The people who knew the codes – who were responsible for the distribution of this help – were released. This is not America, right?”
“Destroy. Desolate. It felt like with joythat these life conservation systems were torn from the walls. It seems to me that I don’t know if ‘evil’ is too strong. But what we know about pure evil is that it is enjoying death, the waste of human life – especially children. It actually enjoys it. And whether it is incompetence or unintentional consequences. It is not too late for people. “
Rogan: USA is a “money laundering surgery”
Rogan reacted to this by describing the imperfect, somewhat poorly guided USAID with its “trillion” dollars losses as “money laundering surgery” without “supervision and evidence”. The singer countered and confirmed both the need for the USA and the role and responsibility of America in providing help in view of the isolationist tendencies of the Trump government.
“I just want to remind the Americans of the size of their country. And I’m not talking about geography,” said Bono. “The size of the idea is simply extraordinary. It is an idea that is big enough to include the whole world. And when it becomes an island instead of a continent … If it shrinks, America seems to stop.”
Rogan is open to differentiated perspective
Rogan partially agreed. “We help the world, and when it comes to building well for people in the Congo so that they get fresh water. If it is about food and medication for places that have no access, it shouldn’t have been deleted. That should have been clear before these radical cuts were made. There must be a way to maintain help.”
The podcast moderator added: “The ironic is that Elon Musk proposed all of these things. And the Doge Committee proposed all of these things. But they did not make cuts in the household … they have not shortened anything.”
Elon Musk promptly reacts to Bonos statements
As expected, Musk reacted to Bonos claims to X and wrote: “He is such a liar/idiot. Nobody died!” Bono had referred to a study that warned that 300,000 people could die if the United States’ cuts are enforced.