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1. Something “Very Strange” About “Richest Man” Slashing Programs
“This is the case….of the richest man in the world and there’s something very strange about him slashing programs that prevent starvation and hunger and poverty in much of the world.”
— NPR White House correspondent and ABC News contributor Asma Khalid on ABC’s This Week, February 9.
2. Elon Musk “Literally Killing People Across the Globe”
“When are we going to finally see the lawsuits move on USAID and actually an injunction that stops that, all of those actions right now that are literally, unless the reports are exaggerated, literally killing people across the globe right now, this morning, this instant?”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, February 6.
3. Joy Behar Wants to Re-Name America!
“This country that we’re in was settled by indigenous people, right? And yet they name the country after an Italian white man, Amerigo Vespucci. That’s what America is named after, Amerigo Vespucci. A white European. Why is it named after a white man, when it was settled by indigenous people?”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, February 13.
