2026年6月27日美国东部时间凌晨4:00 / 福克斯新闻频道
罗·卡纳引用《柳叶刀》研究称，美国国际开发署遭解散可能导致450万儿童被判处死刑
作者：利奥·布里塞诺 福克斯新闻
民主党高层无视埃隆·马斯克的法律诉讼威胁
卡纳坚称不会被这位太空探索技术公司创始人“吓倒”。（图片来源：尼古拉斯·巴拉西 摄 福克斯新闻数字频道）
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当地时间周四，加利福尼亚州联邦众议员、民主党人罗·卡纳对太空探索技术公司和特斯拉的亿万富翁创始人埃隆·马斯克的法律诉讼威胁置之不理。
“他向来如此，”卡纳在美国国会大厦外对福克斯新闻数字频道表示。
“这就是我们这个时代的缩影：亿万富翁——如今甚至是万亿富翁——可以因为国会议员履行职责而威胁起诉他们。他吓不倒我。我不会被这家伙吓倒，我不会被这家伙封口，”卡纳说道。
卡纳的此番言论出炉之际，他与马斯克正就海外政府援助项目削减事宜展开线上交锋——这些由特朗普政府第二届任期初期马斯克牵头推动的削减项目，是否造成了人员死亡。
民主党议员对埃隆·马斯克的狗狗币计划持开放态度“两党合作”
加利福尼亚州联邦众议员、民主党人罗·卡纳（左）与太空探索技术公司和特斯拉的亿万富翁创始人埃隆·马斯克（右）合影。（图片来源：内森·霍华德/彭博社 盖蒂图片社；奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社）
作为知名进步派人士且被传为2028年总统候选人的卡纳，此前一直批评马斯克削减美国国际开发署（USAID）预算的举措。
“埃隆·马斯克必须承担责任。大家都在庆祝他造就了4400名百万富翁，但没人提及全球范围内因他解散美国国际开发署而可能被判处死刑的450万儿童，”卡纳在近期一档播客节目中说道，他援引了医学期刊《柳叶刀》集团的一项研究。
这番言论遭到了马斯克的强烈反驳，马斯克此前曾亲自主导削减美国项目中的浪费、欺诈和滥用行为。
埃隆·马斯克与众议院狗狗币委员会闭门会议中策划1万亿美元支出削减计划
2026年2月20日，加利福尼亚州联邦众议员、民主党人罗·卡纳在加利福尼亚州斯坦福市的一场市政厅活动上发表讲话，主题为对亿万富翁征税与人工智能的未来。（图片来源：本杰明·范乔伊/盖蒂图片社）
“是时候起诉这个骗子了，”马斯克在X平台的帖子中写道。
“强盗卡纳应该进监狱，”马斯克在另一条回复中补充道。
与许多对政府开支持怀疑态度的保守派人士一样，马斯克批评美国国际开发署批准了数百万美元的开支，在他看来这些支出毫无合理性。
尽管几乎没有民主党人为秘鲁的跨性别漫画书项目和伊拉克芝麻街项目辩护，但批评削减举措的人士认为，马斯克的行动未能区分全球范围内的浪费项目和救命项目。
民主党陷入恐慌：埃隆·马斯克与狗狗币公开亮相
西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯宣布计划以刑事罪名起诉社交媒体高管并限制平台算法，这引发了埃隆·马斯克的激烈反驳。（图片来源：美联社/何塞·路易斯·马加纳）
根据美国国务卿马可·卢比奥的说法，截至去年3月，美国国际开发署已削减了约83%的项目。
目前尚不清楚马斯克若就卡纳的言论提起诉讼，会寻求何种赔偿。
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当被问及如果马斯克兑现其帖子中的威胁提起诉讼，他是否会出庭时，卡纳表示自己胜算不小。
“Grok说他没有胜算，所以我们拭目以待，”卡纳说道，他指的是马斯克旗下社交媒体平台X上的人工智能聊天机器人。
利奥·布里塞诺是福克斯新闻数字频道国会团队的政治记者，此前曾任职于《世界杂志》。
2028 hopeful fires back at Elon Musk after trillionaire threatened lawsuit: ‘Not going to be silenced’
June 27, 2026 4:00am EDT / Fox News
Ro Khanna cited a Lancet study claiming 4.5 million children were possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID
By Leo Briceno Fox News
Top Democrat brushes off threat of legal action from Elon Musk
Khanna affirms he won’t be ‘intimidated’ by the trillionaire founder of Space X. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., brushed aside threats of legal action from Elon Musk, the trillionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla, on Thursday.
“This is what he does,” Khanna told Fox News Digital outside the U.S. Capitol.
“It’s symptomatic of our times that billionaires — and now [a] trillionaire — can threaten to sue members of Congress for doing their job. He won’t intimidate me. I’m not going to be intimidated by the guy. I’m not going to be silenced by the guy,” Khanna said.
Khanna’s comments come on the heels of an online back-and-forth between him and Musk over whether cuts to government aid programs overseas — cuts spearheaded by Musk in the early days of the second Trump administration — had led to fatalities.
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Ro Khanna, D-Calif., left, pictured alongside Elon Musk, the trillionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla, right.(Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In particular, Khanna, a high-profile progressive and a rumored candidate for president in 2028, had been criticizing Musk’s work to cut the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk. You know, they’re celebrating that he created 4,400 millionaires, but they don’t talk about the 4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID,” Khanna said, in a recent podcast appearance, citing a study from the Lancet Group, a medical journal.
The assertion drew a fierce response from Musk, who personally oversaw efforts to trim waste, fraud and abuse from U.S. programs.
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks at a town hall event in Stanford, California, on Feb. 20, 2026, focused on taxing billionaires and the future of AI.(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)
“Time to sue this liar,” Musk said in a post to X.
“Robber Khanna should be in prison,” Musk added in a separate reaction.
Musk, like many conservatives suspicious of government spending, criticized USAID for greenlighting millions in spending that, in their view, had little justification.
But while few Democrats defended programs for transgender comic books in Peru and Iraqi Sesame Street, critics of the cuts argued that Musk’s efforts had failed to differentiate between waste and life-saving initiatives around the globe.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced plans to criminally target social media executives and restrict platform algorithms, prompting a profane backlash from Elon Musk.(AP/Jose Luis Magana)
By March of last year, USAID had cut roughly 83% of its programs, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
It’s not immediately clear what kind of damages Musk would try to pursue in a lawsuit against Khanna for his claims.
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When asked if he would go to court if Musk followed through on his posts, Khanna said he liked his odds.
“Grok says he doesn’t have a case, so we will have to see,” Khanna said, referring to the AI chatbot on X, a social media platform owned by Musk.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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