We will make mistakes. We will not be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we fix it very quickly, said the Tesla CEO during President Donald Trump's first government meeting at the White House.
The billionaire then claimed that the Ebola work was resumed as soon as Doge realized the mistake.
It never stopped, he said.
However, according to current and former employees at the aid agency USAID, Musk is wrong, writes The Washington Post. The US preventive measures against the deadly viral disease have largely come to a halt since Musk and his colleagues froze the agency's outgoing payments, according to several USAID workers to the newspaper.
No effort has been made at all to "get started" on preventing Ebola and other diseases, says Nidhi Bouri, who was high-ranking within USAID during Joe Biden's presidency.
