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While he plans to donate almost his entire fortune to his foundation, Bill Gates criticized Elon Musk’s drastic budget cuts to federal agencies in an interview.
Bill Gates disapproves of Elon Musk’s policies and he’s making it known. In an interview with the Financial Times, the man who once held the top spot as the world’s richest person didn’t mince words in denouncing the budget cuts orchestrated by the Tesla CEO within his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with drastically reducing federal spending.
While several thousand American civil servants have already been laid off, Elon Musk continues to cut costs at several federal agencies by slashing their budgets, or even eliminating them entirely in some cases. This is notably the case with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has simply been shut down. “It was time for it to die,” declared Donald Trump’s right-hand man. This move was far from pleasing to the Microsoft founder, who accused Elon Musk of “killing the poorest children in the world.”
An image that “is not a pretty sight“
Condemning the brutality of these budget cuts which have led to the expiry of medicines and which could cause a resurgence of several diseases such as measles, polio or HIV, Bill Gates said that ” the image of the richest man in the world killing the poorest children in the world is not a pretty sight “.
Continuing to criticize Elon Musk’s policies, Bill Gates also denounced the cancellation of grants awarded to a hospital in Mozambique’s Gaza province, a hospital whose mission is to prevent HIV transmission. Mistakenly believing that the United States was making deliveries to Gaza, Gates stated that he wanted Elon Musk to visit the hospital to ” meet the children now infected with HIV because he has cut off this funding.”
Philanthropist Bill Gates, now 69, has also indicated that he will spend almost his entire fortune over the next twenty years on his foundation, which will close in 2045. More than $200 billion will be dedicated to education and development worldwide, as well as to health initiatives aimed at eradicating diseases such as malaria and polio. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people,” he wrote in a statement posted on his website.
