{"id":27020,"date":"2025-05-08T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27020"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:31:17","slug":"bill-gates-accuses-elon-musk-of-killing-the-worlds-poorest-children-in-scathing-criticism-of-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27020","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing the world\u2019s poorest children’ in scathing criticism of DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill Gates has not held back on his criticism of Elon Musk, slamming the billionaire’s role in a government department as ‘killing’ children.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0was sworn into office on January 20 this year, the landscape across the US – and the global stage – is looking notably different than it did 100 days ago.<\/p>\n

Countless executive orders and decisions flying out of the\u00a0White House<\/a>\u00a0have made monumental changes in the country and to the world, with it hard to pick the most controversial of them all.<\/p>\n

However, Trump’s appointment of his billionaire ‘First Buddy’\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0to spearhead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut the federal workforce and save\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0is certainly up there and hasn’t gone amiss to the likes of fellow billionaire,\u00a0Gates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Musk has been on a cost-cutting spree (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

However, the philanthropist is less than impressed by Musk’s cost-cutting initiatives under DOGE, going on to accuse him of ‘killing the world’s poorest children.’<\/p>\n

DOGE has seen dozens of agencies and departments shrink in recent months, particularly\u00a0in foreign aid initiatives<\/a>\u00a0like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as Musk said back in February it was a ‘criminal<\/a>\u00a0organization’ and it was ‘time for it to die.’<\/p>\n

USAID had around 10,000 staff and was the world’s largest single donor of humanitarian aid, having spent over $40 million across the world in the fiscal year 2023.<\/p>\n

Yet the world’s richest man saw it as a black hole for federal funds, and announced closing it down.<\/p>\n

“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said at the time. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You\u2019ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing.”<\/p>\n

It’s here where Gates takes issue the most, slamming the moves to cut\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0development overseas as misguided.<\/p>\n

Speaking<\/a>\u00a0to the Financial Times, the\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0co-founder said: “The picture of the world\u2019s richest man killing the world\u2019s poorest children is not a pretty one.”<\/p>\n

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Gates isn’t happy with Musk (Gilbert Flores\/Variety via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He went on to say the severe cuts have seen life-saving\u00a0medicines<\/a>\u00a0and food supplies expiring in warehouses while countries suddenly starved of the resource could see a surge in diseases like measles, HIV and polio.<\/p>\n

Gates went on to accuse Musk of cancelling grants to aid a hospital in Gaza that prevents women passing HIV on to their newborn babies under a false claim that the US was distributing condoms to Hamas in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The comments come as the 69-year-old, also a billionaire, has clashed with Musk before.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the\u00a0Tesla<\/a>\u00a0boss signed a Giving Pledge alongside dozens of billionaires who promised to give away at least half of their wealth, though Musk told Gates the initiative was ‘bulls***’.<\/p>\n

It also comes as Gates plans to splash almost his entire fortune in the coming decades before closing from his Gates Foundation for good in 2045.<\/p>\n

He announced plans to spend $200 billion on global health, development and education on a mission to eradicate diseases through vaccines, maternal and child health and curing HIV.<\/p>\n

However, he said his private endeavours are just a drop in the ocean from the shortfall created from the cuts to USAID which was $44 billion last year alone.<\/p>\n

Still, in a letter outlining his decision, Gates said: \u201cPeople will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that \u2018he died rich\u2019 will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve.”<\/p>\n

UNILAD has reached out to the US government for comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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