Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of Doge cuts, especially the planned USAID, during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast on Friday.
In the incident, Bono faced a study with Rogan, a friend of now-breaking Elon Musk, warning that 300,000 people worldwide could die from cuts by the United States Agency for International Development, which allocated food, cleaning water and medical supplies to more than 120 countries.
“There is food rotting in the boat and warehouse,” Bono said Joe Rogan Experience. "There are 50,000 tons of food. The person who knows the regulations (the code responsible for distributing the aid) has been fired. Not the United States, is it?"
Bono continued: “To destroy, destroy is full of joy, these life support systems are pulled from the walls, (a worker of an assistant said), ‘We don’t have the funds, we have to choose which child can get out of IV.” In my opinion, I don’t know if “evil” is too strong, but what we know about pure evil is that it is in dying, wasting human life, especially children, which is actually incompetent.
Rogan said that the imperfection of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), some of the poorly strong United States Agency for International Development (USAID), its "trillion dollar" losses were "money laundering operations" without "no supervision, no receipts". The singer pushed back, reaffirming the role and responsibility of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. to provide assistance in the Trump administration’s isolationist lean side.
"I just want to remind Americans of the size of their country, and I'm not talking about geography," Bono said. "The scale of their ideas, it's just an extraordinary thing. It's an idea big enough to fit the whole world when it becomes an island rather than a continent... When it shrinks, the United States doesn't seem to be America anymore."
Rogan partially acquiesced: “We help the world, when you talk about making money for people in the Congo, when you talk about food and medicines in places that are not accessible, you should not cut those foods and medicines.
The podcast host added: "Ironically, even though Elon Musk brought up all these things and the Jogg Commission brought up all these things, they didn't cut any budget... they didn't cut anything."
Foreseeable, Musk responded to Bono's claim to X, writing: "He's a liar/idiot. Zero people died!" Bono cites a study that warns that 300,000 deaths could occur if the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cuts measures.