Elon Musk hits back at Bill Gates’ claim that DOGE cuts could lead to deaths of children: ‘I’d like him to show us any evidence’

- Elon Musk rejected Bill Gates’ claim that the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (Doug) It endangers the lives of children by reducing the funding of the US Agency for International Development, describing Gates as a liar and a claim. The gates and health prosecutors argue that the Discounts of HIV/HIV services are vital in places such as Gaza, Mozambique, with gates accusing musk of their failure to understand the consequences to reduce the costs of Dog.
The CEO of Tesla El Musk has prompted Bill Gates’ claim that the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) will endanger the lives of millions of children.
Musk was appointed to run DOGE by President Trump when he won the Oval Office, after the duo formed a political alliance before the November elections.
Since then, Dogge has been a controversial cost -lowering agency that mixed government departments, including education and the United States for International Development.
It is the action taken at the United States Agency for International Development that caught the attention of the co -founder of Microsoft and billionaire Bill Gates.
In an interview with Financial times Earlier this year, Gates said: “The image of the richest man in the world kills the poorest children of the world is not beautiful.”
Musk, which is valued at $ 376 billion, regained per Bloomberg Billionails, yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg while it appeared remotely at the Economic Forum in Qatar in Doha.
Musk Gates described it as a liar, adding: “Who does Bill Gates think?”
Mousse pointed out that Gates has donated billions of charitable reasons in some of the poorest parts in the world, including recently, pledged to donate almost all his wealth in his organization.
Gates said recently luck The money, which will be around $ 200 billion, must be spent by 2045 when the institution is closed.
The latest criticism of Gates came in an interview published earlier this month, regarding the Moisa’s recognized error regarding the claim that the condom was sent to Gaza in the Middle East, where Duj canceled the payment via the United States Agency for International Development.
It was placed on musk that the contraceptive methods instead may be binding on the Gaza region in Mozambique to help fight AIDS and HIV infection.
Gates told a newspaper foot.
per wealth Special reports, one charity operating in Gaza, Mozambique had no $ 33 million contracts by the United States Agency for International Development.
In March, Trech Carlin, Executive Vice President for Business Development and Foreign Affairs at Elizabeth Glaser AIDS AIDS, luck It was imperative that the money be spent on “the workforce of health care, support for counseling, testing, and blood samples to find out how people progress in their illness, and what other opportunistic infections that may be, and training psychological and social support. In some logistical cases.
“We have seen drug stories arrive in the country, but [there’s no] A system then get these medications to the pharmacy. It is a complex service. “
Musk says that he asked for evidence and is silent
Speaking to the audience in Doha, Musk said that he returned to the data and verified whether it could lead to any death from children, or indeed the “millions” of the losses that Gates warned.
Musk said: “I would like to show us any evidence that this is true.” “This is a mistake. What we found with discounts at the US International Development Agency – and by the way, not all were cut – the American Agency’s International Development Agency paths were transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has not been deleted, it has been simply transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“But often, several times with the American Agency for International Development and other organizations, when they said,” Oh, this children will help “or” it will help us eliminate some diseases “or something like that, and then when we asked for any evidence at all, I said:” Well, we link this group of children so that we can talk to them and understand more about the problem, “we get anything.”
Musk continued that charitable organizations have refused to make an “orphan offer” to clarify their need for money, and continued: “What we find is a huge amount of fraud and graft.
Then Musk asked to know the programs that were canceled as a funding that could lead to deaths and added: “If this is true, then I doubt that, then we will fix it.”
Representatives have been contacted by both musk and gates before luck To comment.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
2025-05-21 11:00:00