Bill Gates says Elon Musk Is ‘Killing World’s Poorest Children’

Bill Gates accused fellow billionaire Elon Musk of “killing the world’s poorest children” over the cuts to USAID.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft founder and billionaire told the Financial Times.

Musk, CEO of electric automaker Tesla, spearheaded the efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash federal spending, including the shuttering of the foreign aid arm, USAID.

Gates cited Musk’s cuts to grants to a hospital in Gaza Province, Mozambique, that was preventing women from transmitting HIV to their babies.

“I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,” Gates told the publication.

Newsweek has reached out to Musk for comment via email to the Tesla press office.

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