The singer and humanitarian schooled the podcaster on the real world impact of his billionaire friend's DOGE cuts, while Musk fires back on social media.

The world's richest man hit back at U2 frontman Bono's claim that cuts by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the globe.

As Elon Musk leaves his formal US government position, dozens of legal challenges over the billionaire’s powerful role in the Trump administration and the work of the Department of Government Efficiency will press ahead.

Bono claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that USAID cuts caused 300,000 deaths, prompting Elon Musk to fire back on X, calling him a “liar/idiot" and denying the attack.

The Red Planet and Earth align properly for interplanetary missions just once every 26 months. The next such opportunity comes in 2026 between the months of November and December, and SpaceX will try to hit it; the goal is to send five Starship Version 3 vehicles to the Red Planet to prove out the vehicle and its associated tech, Musk said.

Let's jump in with the headline about Elon Musk we reported on earlier today. Today was his last day as a special government employee. We had that extraordinary press conference we reported on in the Oval Office.

Tesla boss Elon Musk previously served as one of the President's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-leads

However, a closer read of Walter Isaacson’s 2023 biography of Musk provided a clue, and apparent confirmation. In Chapter 6, Isaacson writes that Elon, shortly after arriving in Canada in 1989, interned in Microsoft’s Toronto office — a detail that supports Nadella’s statement, though it hasn’t been widely discussed elsewhere.

"It is very hard to separate Elon Musk's brand from the brand of Tesla, and SpaceX," a Harvard Business fellow told Newsweek.