One of the programs they "turned off" was medical care provided to HIV-positive pregnant women in Africa to help ensure that HIV wasn't passed on to the child.

One of the programs they "turned off" was medical care provided to HIV-positive pregnant women in Africa to help ensure that HIV wasn't passed on to the child. There are now more children who have HIV, who didn't need to have HIV, but Musk thinks you can run a government like he runs Twitter, so here we are. I don't recall if that program got "turned on" again, but just the act of shutting it down for some period of time did significant harm. Saying this is all "irresponsible" is vastly understating how messed up this all is.