Elon Musk threatens to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to death of 4.5M kids
Democrat Ro Khanna cited a 2025 study that estimated more than 14 million people could die without USAID resources by 2030
Elon Musk, the trillionaire CEO and former temporary government employee, threatened to sue Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna after the lawmaker accused Musk of “possibly” sentencing 4.5 million children to death by cutting funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Monday morning, Musk took to his social media platform, X, to lash out at Khanna for suggesting Musk’s deep cuts to USAID’s funding and workforce, while overseeing DOGE last year, may have led to millions of children dying.
“You know they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID,” Khanna said on the “I’ve Had It” podcast over the weekend.
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Please sue. Please. I'd pay money for that discovery.
I'm still waiting on musk v zuck
The rule for psychopathic narcissists in 2026:
If they're going to sue, you know it to be true.
Ok. Go ahead. Countersuing the "trillionaire" for punitive damages is not above Congressman Khanna, of all people.
Countersue with a class-action lawsuit, where the damaged class is the Citizens of the United States of America and the world.
Might be nonsensical, but I'm with you in spirit.
This whole timeline is nonsense.
There’s no proof stronger that they absolutely despise poor people than gleefully ripping out a system that tries to protect most vulnerable people in the world.
And threatening to sue when it's pointed out
Discovery is gonna be fun.
So please do!
He will withdraw the moment it gets to that point. It still creates costs for defendant though.
Pedo immigrant welfare queen throws fit
African immigrant who abandoned his child
Abandoned Children from several different baby mamas
One of the most famous, and richest pedophiles of the great empire threatened to sue someone calling them a bitch today...
Girls ftw!
FrEe SpEeCh AbSoLuTiSt
Do it!
Discovery would be awesome.
I didn't hear about this. Thanks to Elon, now I do. If i would have heard about it, I would have thought: could be true, could be exaggerated. But he immediately sues, so it's probably true otherwise it wouldn't trigger him that much. Way to go dumbass Elon!
he's right.. it's false.
it's probably closer to 5million kids, with another 500,000 being thrown into prisons to be raped by trump and his friends who wipe his ass
Sue him for what?
Free speech absolutist doing free speech absolutist things.
Elon started typing “free speech apartheidist” but saw the autocorrect and just went with it
That’s why I’m not a absolutist
To exhaust his money supply.
You can't win against a trillionare
That's why every state should have robust Anti-Slapp laws. Furthermore attempting a slapp suit should come with punitive damages beyond just the attorney fees of the defendant of your frivolous suit. And there should be a three strikes system (a boy who cried wolf law) that if you are found to have attempted a slapp suit three times or more, A) you get a felony charge for denial of free speech that can come with jail time for up to 10 years in federal prison, B) the default presumption that any future speech based suits brought by you are likely slapp suits. In other words, the burden is on you to prove that you are likely to win your defamation case before a defense or discovery is even required, and all legal fees are to be taken on by yourself by default unless you win.
You got the right idea with the right laws, it’s just the punishment should be harsher
Not with that kind of attitude. Also, elon isn't really a trillionaire, the intinsic value of his stocks is 1/100 of that.
Well, you can if you straight up kill them. And that's the only remaining course against all conservatives and right-wingers: they don't deserve to live
I don't even have a joke for this. There's nothing to sue over.
1 trillion
Elon Musk, defender of free speech and known honest dealer. /s
The only questions journalists should ask billionaires are:
How much is a human life worth to you?
Then why do you have a billion dollars while so many preventable deaths happen?
Having a billion dollars isn't something anyone should strive for, and long before someone gets to that level, they need to be shamed out of it.
Anytime they complain, remind them all they need to do is let go of some of their hoarded wealth that they couldn't spend if they tried. Then remind them historically the rest of society eventually stops asking and starts seizing.
Elon Musk needs to fuck off. Of everything.
Especially of this mortal coil.
And Streisand laughed
You can't sue a lawmaker for shit they say, I though, idk the details on that. Not that the rules matter in this fucking hellscape developing.
They did. And the screw worm, which should be named after musk.
We must kill Elon Musk.
Discovery would be a delight.
Dew it! Put him on the stand and make him explain his actions.
The stand below the gallows.
he's just flexing to try to scare ro khanna off from running for a higher office. khanna is like the exact opposite of who a turdball like elon would want sitting behind the resolute desk.
Ah ça ira ça ira ça ira, les aristocrates à la lanterne!