MSNBC panel stunned to silence over report on deaths linked to Elon Musk's DOGE

During a panel discussion on Elon Musk's last days of assisting Donald Trump in dismantling the government in search of putative savings, one MSNBC contributor brought up a grim report on deaths that have been attributed to the work done by the billionaire's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" sat in stunned silence when political commentator Anand Giridharadas started ticking off the damage Musk is leaving behind as he reportedly exits politics.

That included a startling number of deaths according to an analysis coming out of Boston University.

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"I just want to say we can tell the Elon story and this kind of disciplining by democracy as a story of someone leaving but there is pain in the wake of these tariffs, and there's pain in the wake of what Elon did," he explained.

Holding up his phone for viewers, he added, "He [Musk] talked about bringing the woodchipper to USAID. Brooke Nichols, Boston University professor, mathematician, figured out what is the effect of this. They have a tracker: 300,000 deaths according to a Boston University professor, because of the aid cuts so far, 200,000 of them children."

"Okay: Vietnam war, you all remember that? 60,000 U.S. service members died," he pointed out. "This is five times more deaths according to the Boston University study because of aid cuts since January of this year. So Elon Musk is leaving but he's also leaving a legacy."

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