As the Ebola outbreak grows and raises global health concerns, there has been renewed scrutiny on the Trump administration’s public health policies and treatment of disease surveillance and outbreak-response programs, as well as the impact of dissolution of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The conversation has intensified after a resurfaced 2025 video of Elon Musk, then head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), acknowledged that the agency had temporarily cut some Ebola-related prevention efforts before restoring them.
In regards to the ongoing debate, a spokesperson for the State Department told Newsweek in an email Tuesday, “By bringing USAID global health functions under the new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at…
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