Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk of "Killing the World's Poorest Children"

In an ongoing battle for which capitalist overlord can claim the moral high ground, Microsoft founder and the world's sixth richest man, Bill Gates, has accused Elon Musk of "killing the world's poorest children" by gutting the US Agency for International Development (USAID). "The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," Gates told the Financial Times. Musk, through his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), all but shuttered USAID in February by freezing its grants used for foreign assistance and slashing its workforce, once 10,000 strong, to less than 300 employees. Gates said that the abruptness of the cuts meant that troves of food and medicines are now rotting in warehouses. In April, the New York Times reported that Musk's USAID cuts forced hundreds of soup kitchens in Sudan to shut down. Gates also slammed Musk for having no understanding of USAID or the work it did, citing how Musk cancelled grants because ... Read full article.