Echoingprevious remarksto the effect that DOGE would make mistakes, Musk told cabinet members: We wont be perfect.
But when we make a mistake well fix it very quickly.
I think we all want Ebola prevention.
Elon Musk speaks during the first Cabinet meeting of Donald Trump’s second term.Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately.
Thousands of employees have beenplaced on leave.
Musk is failing up in this administration because he didnt earn his job, he bought it.
Its corrupt, and risks Americans health and safety.
On January 29, Uganda reported an Ebola outbreak, hewroteon X.
Normally the U.S. wouldve very quickly sent one of our Ebola experts to help the response.
But this time, we didnt.
Because this administration wouldnt let them go right when this outbreak was declared.
Whats left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Widespread cuts at the CDC and USAID had wrecked any response capability, he said.
Kennedy said of the outbreak itself: Its not unusual.
We have measles outbreaks every year.
But the child who died marked thefirst recorded deathfrom measles in the U.S. in a decade.
(The respiratory disease was declared eliminated in the country in 2000.)