Bill Gates says Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children

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Bill Gates has said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is responsible for "killing the world's poorest children" through his cuts to US development assistance.

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In a new interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has come out against Elon Musk for the decision made by the group the Tesla CEO formed, called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is tasked with cutting over-spending throughout the US government. According to reports, DOGE shut down the US Agency for International Development in February, which Gates says has left life-saving food and medicines expiring in warehouses, resulting in the 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," Gates said to the publication Financial Times

More specifically, Gates said Musk has canceled grants to a hospital in Gaza Province and Mozambique, which provided the necessary medical care to prevent women from transmitting HIV to their babies. Gates said that Musk did this under the belief that the US was supplying 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," said Gates

Gates also stated throughout the interview that he intends to spend the large majority of his fortune, which will amount to $200 billion being directed at global health, development and education.

"It gives us clarity. 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," he said