Bill Gates accused Musk of « killing the poor children of the world » and promised billions of help
Bill Gates promised to donate $ 200 billion on Thursday through his charity foundation until 2045 and made sharp attacks on Ilon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of « killing the poorest » children in the world through huge abbreviations in the US budget for foreign assistance.
The 69-year-old billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft said he accelerated his plans to free himself from almost all his condition and would close the foundation on December 31, 2045, years earlier than planned. Gates said he believes that money will help to achieve several of his goals, such as eliminating diseases such as polio and malaria, ending preventive deaths among women and children, and reducing poverty worldwide.
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The announcement comes after the footsteps of several governments, including the Trump Administration, to reduce international assistance budgets used to prevent deadly diseases and hunger.
The abbreviations in the United States are under the supervision of Musk, who publicly boasts that he has launched the US Agency for International Development in the « Wooden Department » of his Department for Governance Efficiency (Doge). About 80% of USAID programs will be shortened; The agency has spent $ 44 billion worldwide in the fiscal 2023.
The view of the richest person in the world who kills the poorest children in the world is not pleasant.
Bill Gates. In front of the Financial Times
In an interview with Reuters, Gates warned of a sharp turn over the next four to six years of decades of progress in reducing mortality due to the redundancies of funding from governments around the world.
| « The number of deaths will start to increase for the first time … There will be millions of more deaths due to resources, » Gates told Reuters. |
The Gates Foundation’s annual budget will reach $ 9 billion by 2026 and about $ 10 billion a year thereafter due to accelerated costs. Gates warned the White House that its foundation and other philanthropic organizations could not fill the gaps left by governments.
| « I think the governments will return to the care of the survival of the children » in the next 20-year period, « Gates said on Thursday. |
Gates and Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had once agreed on the role of the money -rich money to help others, but have been confronted several times since then.
Asked if he recently appealed to Musk to change the course, Gates said it was now the turn of Congress to decide the future of US help costs.
« Gates is a great liar, » Musk said in response to tweet on his social media platform X, which posted an interview with Gates warning of US assistance cuts.
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Gates said that despite his deep pockets of his foundation, progress will not be possible without government support.
| « There are too many urgent problems to solve to hold the resources that could be used to help people, » Gates wrote in a publication on his website. |
It is unclear whether the richest countries in the world will continue to protect their poorest people.
Bill Gates. In front of « Reuters »
He praised the response to the redundancies of aid in Africa, where some governments have redistributed budgets, but said, for example, polio will not be uprooted without funding from the United States.
Gates made a message about the 25th anniversary of the foundation. He founded the organization with his then wife, Melinda French Gates in 2000, and later joined billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
« What did my parents teach me »
Since its creation, the foundation has donated $ 100 billion, helping to save millions of lives and support initiatives such as the GAVI vaccination group and the Global AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Fund.
- It will be closed after spending about 99% of Gates’ personal status, he said. The founders initially expected the foundation to end their activities in the decades after their death.
- Gates, whose condition is currently estimated at about $ 108 billion, expects the foundation to spend about $ 200 MRD. By 2045, the final figure depends on markets and inflation.
- The Foundation is criticized for its excessive power and influence without the necessary accountability, including in the World Health Organization.
- Gates himself was also subject to conspiracy theories, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He has talked to Trump several times in recent months and twice since the president took office on January 20, he told Reuters on Thursday, about the importance of continuing investment in global healthcare.
« The world really has values. My parents have taught me, » Gates told Reuters.
