Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of “Kill” Children with USAID cuts

The philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates struck Elon Musk, accusing the richest man in the world of “killing the poorest children in the world”, through what he said were wrong in the development of U.S. development.

DoorsIt announces a plan to accelerate its philanthropic for the next 20 years and closed the Gates Foundation of 2045, said in an interview that the Tesla chief had acted ignorant.

In February, MuscThe so-called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE), in effect, closed the US Agency for International Development, the main conduit for American aid, saying that it was “the time to die”.

The co -founder of Microsoft, and a richer in the world, said that the steep cuts had left food and medicines that save the life that expired in warehouses and could resurface diseases such as measles, HIV and polyomyelitis.

“The image of the richest man in the world who kills the poorest children in the world is not beautiful,” he told Financial Times.

Gates said that Musk had canceled grants to a hospital in the province of Gaza, Mozambique, which prevents women from passing on HIV to their babies, in the wrong belief that the United States supplied condoms to Hamas in Gaza in the Middle East. “I would love to come in and meet the children who have now infected with HIV because he cut that money,” he said.

Gates, 69, announced on Thursday plans to spend virtually their entire fortune over the next 20 years, during which it estimates that its foundation will spend more than $ 200 million in health, development and global education against $ 100 million during the previous 25 years. The Gates Foundation will close its doors by 2045, decades earlier than it was foreseen.

Gates said that the reason for accelerated expenditure was to have the maximum impact, with the potential of finding solutions and for all solutions such as eradicating poliomyelitis and healing HIV.

“It gives us clarity,” he said. “We will have much more money because we spend during the twenty years, unlike making an effort to be a perpetual base.”

The Foundation will continue to spend most of its budget, which will increase to $ 10 million annually, in global health, with vaccines, mother and child health is still a focus. But Gates said that private philanthropy could not compensate for the lack of cuts in USAID, whose budget was $ 44 million last year.

Gates intends to convey less than 1 % of his wealth to his children. He said he was a supporter of a strong real estate tax to prevent “dynastic richness” and “much more progressive tax”.

Critics have accused cats of using the charity state of its foundation as a fiscal shield and using its thousands of millions in an improper influence on world health priorities.

In a letter explaining his decision, Gates said, “People will say a lot about me when they died, but I’m determined that” he died rich “will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve.”

Gates and Musk have faced before philanthropy. In 2012, Musk signed the Giving Giving, launched by Bill and Melinda Gates and the investor Warren Buffett, through which dozens of billionaires promised to give at least half of their wealth. But Musk later told Gates that philanthropy was mostly “bullshit” and that commercial solutions to problems such as climate change, including Tesla’s electric vehicles, were more effective, according to biographer Walter Isaacson by Musk.

Isaacson described Musk’s fury in 2022, knowing that Gates had shortened Tesla’s actions, calling him a hypocrite to try to earn money to undermine a company that sought to do good. In a comment at that time on Twitter, now X, Musk published a carefree photo of doors accompanied by the subtitle: “In case you need to lose a quick boner.”

Gates told the FT that Musk, who called “a criminal organization”, did not understand what the North -American Agency did or its operation. Musk, in February, acknowledged to confuse the province of Mozambique of Gaza in the Palestinian territory, saying that “some of the things I say will be incorrect.”

Gates has been more restricted in his critique of Donald Trump, saying that he may not have fully understood the impact of the cuts and maintaining the perspective that some could be reversed. The Gates Foundation is one of the many who fear that the President of the United States may try to eliminate his tax -free state through an executive order.

Gates criticized the appointment of Robert F Kennedy JR Trump as Secretary of Health, saying that Kennedy had “attacked vaccines and, in particular, my role … with many falsehoods”.

But he reserved his most severe critique of Musk, whose cuts said he threatened to undermine 25 years of work from the Gates Foundation. Gates once told Isaacson that Musk should spend more time worrying about life on Earth than looking for solutions on other planets. “He’s on the board on Mars,” he said.

Musk and Doo did not respond to comments applications.

Joe Miller’s additional reports in Washington