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Bono Speaks And MAGA Lashes Out
U2’s Bono and popular podcaster Joe Rogan (The Joe Rogan Experience) clashed on Friday (5/30) over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s planned USAID cuts.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a governmental agency that has been responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
Bono Discusses USAID at 52:00 Minutes
Bono told Rogan, a friend of DOGEs head Elon Musk, about a study that warned that an estimated 300,000 people worldwide could die from USAID cuts, which distributes food, clean water, and medical supplies to over 120 countries.
“There’s food rotting in boats and warehouses,” Bono said. “There is 50,000 tons of food. The people who knew the codes – who were responsible for distributing that aid – were fired. That’s not America, is it?”
The Trump administration attempted to shut down USAID, though this was blocked in court. MAGA supporters, including Musk, argue cuts would save American taxpayers money that was being used ineffectively and had a vitriolic online response criticizing Bono personally and intellectually.
“To choose which child to pull off the IVs—it just seems to me like, I don’t know if ‘evil’ is too strong a word, but what we know about pure evil is, it rejoices in the deaths, in the squandering of human life, particularly children,” Bono said. “It actually rejoices in it, and whether it’s incompetence, whether it’s unintended consequences, it’s not too late.”
“The problem is for sure there have been a lot of organizations that do tremendous good all throughout the world,” opined Rogan. “Also, for sure there was no oversight, for sure billions, of dollars are missing.”
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