The American Prospect | FA Warsameh/AP
On the night of February 3, 2025, Elon Musk boasted on X about his weekend spent “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” The remark still haunts Nicholas Enrich, the career civil servant turned whistleblower who borrowed it as the title for his memoir. Part political chronicle, part testimony, part autobiography, Into the Wood Chipper recounts the destruction of the United States Agency for International Development from the anguished perspective of a federal worker fed into the DOGE-powered chipper.