Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid and says he's giving away his wealth (2025)
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... Bill Gates accused Elon Musk of killing poor children as he announced Thursday that he would donate his remaining fortune to his charity, the Gates Foundation.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, Gates addressed Musk's recent cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal agency responsible for distributing foreign aid around the world. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, effectively shut down the agency in February.

Gates, 69, criticized the shuttering of the agency, accusing Musk of risking a resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio.

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," he told the Financial Times.

"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 said of Musk.

A representative for Musk did not immediately reply to a request for comment. ...