Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk Of ‘Killing The World’s Poorest Children’ With DOGE’s USAID Cuts

Alessio AtriaMay 8, 2025, 2:37 pmHome Featured, News >

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk for “killing” poor children by shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

In February, Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shut down the USAID, the main source for aid in America, declaring that it was “time for it to die.”

During President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting, Musk confessed that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accidentally canceled Ebola-prevention measures advanced through USAID, saying the agency fixed its mistake immediately. The DOGE ledger tracking their cuts was discovered to be filled with errors.

Gates stated that Musk behaved ignorantly in his new role. He also said that because the cuts were unexpected, life-saving food and medicines were subsequently left to expire in warehouses, which could lead to the resurgence of diseases like 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.

Musk cancelled grants to a hospital in Gaza Province, Mozambique, to prevent women from transmitting HIV to their babies, in the mistaken belief that the U.S. was delivering condoms to Hamas in Gaza in the Middle East.

“I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” the Microsoft co-founder stated.

On May 8, Gates announced plans to spend his entire fortune over the next two decades. During this time, he estimates his foundation will spend over $200 billion on global health, development and education, compared to $100 billion over the past 25 years.

The Gates Foundation will close its doors in 2045, tens of years earlier than hoped.

Gates stated that the rationale for accelerated spending was to have maximum impact, with the possibility of finding once-and-for-all solutions like eradicating polio and curing HIV.

“It gives us clarity,” he claimed. “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.”