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Bill Gates holds Elon Musk responsible for the preventable death of the poorest children in the world, because of his cuts in the American budget for foreign aid.
“The image of the richest man in the world killing the poorest children in the world is not pretty,” said Microsoft (Msft-0.92%)) The billionaire co-founder said that the Financial time THURSDAY.
In February, the Trump administration launched scanning cuts with foreign aid, supervised by the Department of Effectiveness of the Musk Government (DOGE). “USAID is a criminal organization. It is time for it to die,” wrote Musk X While dismantling began.
The government has eliminated more than 90% of assistance contracts abroad of the US International Development Agency (USAID) and reduced $ 60 billion in global aid in the United States in the world. Simultaneously, Trump officials have eradicated 1,600 USAID jobs based in the United States and put the 4,700 workers abroad of the agency on leave.
Due to the USAID discounts, “the number of deaths will begin to increase for the first time … These will be millions of deaths because of the resources,” said Gates Reuters.
It is believed that the frost and the cessation of financing the emergency plan for the relief of AIDS (PEPFAR) since January 24 Already led to more than 4,800 children’s deaths.
Meanwhile, USAID service notes estimate that 200,000 additional children will be paralyzed with polio each year, and a million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition, following the cuts.
THURSDAY, Gates also announced That the Gates Foundation will close in 2045, decades earlier than we thought before. However, the Foundation will accelerate its charitable efforts, spending more than $ 200 billion in global health, development and education in the next two decades, which the Foundation has promised in the previous 25 years.