While telling the Cabinet this week about his attack on the federal government, Elon Musk admitted, chuckling, that an Ebola-prevention effort was "one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly." Previous administrations understood that helping foreign countries-for instance, by stopping the spread of a deadly hemorrhagic fever in Africa-protects Americans too. Yet that might not have dawned on Musk, who boasted earlier this month about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper." Although he claimed Wednesday to have restored the Ebola program, this appears not to be true

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