BREAKING: Bill Gates drops an atom bomb on Elon Musk’s reputation, accuses him of “killing the world’s poorest children” by cutting USAID — and announces that he’s donating his remaining $100 billion to the Gates Foundation to save lives.
He’s really putting his money where his mouth is…
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one. I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” Gates told the Financial Times.
Back in February, Musk’s now widely reviled DOGE initiative shut down the US Agency for International Development, which Gates said resulted in food and medicine expiring inside warehouses. It also directly contributed to an explosion in measles, HIV, and polio outbreaks.
Musk and Republicans hated USAID because it was a government expenditure that actually helped poor people and although they won’t admit it, they believe that tax dollars should only go towards tax cuts for the super rich.
Gates went into some detail in his conversation with FT, and explained that Musk gutted the grants to a hospital in Gaza, Mozambique that was preventing women from transmitting HIV to their babies.
Musk and other Republicans — either through ignorance or intentional misrepresentation — claimed that condoms were actually going to Gaza in Palestine.
Musk later admitted that he was incorrect about the Gaza-condoms situation, saying “some of the things that I say will be incorrect.” Of course, in his case everything he says is incorrect.
“I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” said Gates.
Gates announced that he is going to spend nearly his entire fortune to help the world over the next two decades and estimates that his foundation will spend over $200 billion on global health, development, and education, after which it will shutter for good.
He stated that he plans to leave less than 1% of his wealth to his children and that he strongly supports a robust estate tax and “much more progressive taxation” to prevent families from accumulating “dynastic wealth.”
“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. There are too many urgent problems to solve,” he stated in a letter explaining his decisions.
Gates said that the accelerated rate of spending from the foundation could result in the total eradication of polio or a cure for HIV.
“It gives us clarity,” said the Microsoft founder. “We’ll have a lot more money because we’re spending down over the 20 years, as opposed to making an effort to be a perpetual foundation.”
Gates also slammed Trump’s decision to appoint anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. to be his Health Secretary, stating that he “attacked vaccines, and specifically my role . . . with a lot of falsehoods.”