Fired USAID Employee Fears Bird Flu is the “Next Pandemic,” Blames Trump & Musk

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Nancy Bolan, a USAID employee fired by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, sat down for a talk with Democrat New York congressional candidate Ritchie Torres that turned into a MAGA-bashing propaganda piece.

Torres warned viruses such as Marburg or Ebola have a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 before pointing out Trump and Musk shut down USAID while a Marburg outbreak is spreading in Africa.

Bolan responded, “There’s also Dengue, which is on its way to the United States, an active Ebola outbreak in Uganda, Mpox, polio and Bird Flu, which is probably the next pandemic.”

Omg. In an absolutely shocking video, a fired USAID worker says Donald Trump has terminated our ability to stop deadly outbreaks of Dengue Fever, Ebola, Mpox, Polio, and Bird Flu from coming to the United States. Every single American should see this.

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Next, Torres praised USAID for allegedly “fighting violence and poverty, and displacement and disease” abroad, calling the agency “a stabilizing force.”

Disease and other issues taking place in foreign nations “is a lot of what’s fueling migration to the United States,” Bolan said.

Torres then suggested funding USAID is “an investment in” U.S. national security and health.

The former USAID employee also told the Democrat candidate that China, Russia and terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda will take advantage of people in the areas where the agency used to operate.

“It’s going to cost the U.S. taxpayer so much money,” Bolan added. “The grain is rotting in the ports and on the ships and the medications are in warehouses going bad.”

The pair went on to falsely say only Congress can shut down USAID as it has the “power of the purse,” when President Trump actually has the authority to close the agency via executive order as it was created by a John F. Kennedy EO in 1961.

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