Two of the world’s biggest tech-billionaires, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, got into a public feud after Gates accused Musk of having “blood on his hands” for drastically downsizing the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Musk, the head of DOGE under Trump’s administration, labeled USAID a “criminal organization” and froze payments, placed staff on administrative leave, and effectively dismantled the agency’s operations.
What’s more, Musk defended his decision. He said of USAID, which was the world’s largest single donor of humanitarian aid, “It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm in it. What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing.”
According to Gates, the abrupt funding cuts caused vital food and medicine to go to waste in storage, raising the risk of diseases like measles, HIV, and polio to return.
Speaking to Financial Times, the Microsoft founder said, “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” referring to Musk.
He added that Musk suspended support for a hospital in Gaza Province, Mozambique, which aims to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, because he believed US was providing condoms to Hamas in the Middle Eastern Gaza Strip.
“I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” he said.
While announcing that he is donating his remaining fortune—over $100 billion—to the Gates Foundation, along with news that the foundation will spend down all of its funds and close within the next 20 years, Bill Gates accused Elon Musk of “killing the world’s poorest children”… pic.twitter.com/VZ4TNz2ktR
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Speaking to CBS Mornings, Gates stated that according to him, the cuts made by DOGE would be at the expense of two million lives.
Recently, Gates opened up about his plan to donate all of his fortune by 2045 in order to help the poor.
“It makes the case that the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society,” Gates who is known for his philanthropy wrote in a blog post. “Carnegie argues that ‘the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.’” He added, “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them.”
This idea was inspired by Andrew Carnegie’s 1889 essay, “The Gospel of Wealth.”
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Gates is, however, concerned that his efforts could be undermined by the decision made by Musk to implement sweeping government cuts to USAID.
The Tesla owner didn’t seem to be pleased with Bill Gates’ stance on DOGE’s cuts and their view of USAID, so he took to X to post, “Gates is a huge liar.”
So far, The Gates Foundation has spent $100 billion to fight global child mortality by funding new medical technologies and treatments.
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