Bill Gates calls DOGE 'geographically illiterate,' says Elon Musk is 'involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children'

Bill Gates sharply criticized Elon Musk successful an interrogation with The New York Times published connected Thursday, calling retired the Tesla cofounder's relation successful cutting overseas assistance arsenic portion of his Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

The Microsoft cofounder said that cuts made to overseas aid, peculiar programs administered by the now-shuttered US Agency for International Development, were "stunning."

"He's the 1 who chopped the USAID budget. He enactment it successful the wood chipper, due to the fact that helium didn't spell to a enactment that weekend," Gates told the Times of Musk. "The world's richest antheral has been progressive successful the deaths of the world's poorest children."

Gates besides referred to an lawsuit aboriginal successful President Donald Trump's word successful which medication officials said that the US had been sending condoms to Gaza via overseas aid. In reality, the US had been providing contraceptives to a state successful the African state of Mozambique.

"They chopped the wealth to Gaza Province successful Mozambique. That is truly for drugs, truthful mothers don't springiness their babies HIV," Gates said. "But the radical doing the cutting are truthful geographically illiterate, they deliberation it's Gaza and condoms. Will they spell conscionable those babies who got HIV due to the fact that that wealth was cut? Probably not."

Gates made the remarks arsenic helium discussed his plans to springiness distant the remainder of his wealthiness implicit the adjacent 20 years earlier closing his instauration successful 2045.

The Gates Foundation has invested heavy successful nationalist wellness initiatives astir the world, often focusing connected puerility diseases.

This isn't the archetypal clip Gates has been captious of Musk — oregon vice versa.

Gates has argued that Musk has destabilized the politics of overseas countries done his enactment for right-wing causes successful the United Kingdom and Germany. He's besides said that portion helium believes Tesla is having a affirmative biology impact, helium wishes Musk were much outspoken astir the clime crisis.

Musk, successful turn, has said that Gates has a "limited" knowing of artificial intelligence.

Musk, DOGE, Tesla, and the White House did not respond to requests for remark from Business Insider.

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