Criticism of Tesla boss: Gates: Millions of children die about Musk’s budget cuts

In the opinion of Microsoft co-founder and large donor Bill Gates, Tech billionaire Elon Musk is jointly responsible for the death of millions of children with the drastic cut of US aid programs. The cuts in the US Development Aid Organization USAID are “breathtaking,” said Gates in an interview with the “New York Times”. He expects the number of children who die annually in poor countries to rise from five to six million if there is no turning turn.

According to Gates, there should have been a decline to four million deaths in the coming years. “Because of these cuts, millions will die more,” said Gates. And he has no doubt about the role of Musk: “He is the one who has shortened the Budget of the USA.”

Musk only wrote about the allegations on his online platform X: “Gates is a huge liar.”

Musk, who, among other things, has the electric car manufacturer Tesla, supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign last year with more than $ 250 million and became his confidante. After moving into the White House, Trump commissioned him to reduce government spending. Musk also threw USAID “into the wood chopper”, as he put it on X himself.

“The richest man in the world is involved in the death of the poorest children in the world,” said Gates. Musk’s assets are estimated at more than $ 300 billion (EUR 268 billion). At the time, he had joined the initiative “The Giving Pledge”, which was launched by Gates and investor Warren Buffett, in which rich people undertake to donate assets for charitable purposes. This is also posthurous, as Gates noted. “Who knows? He could still become a big philanthrope,” he said about Musk.

Gates had brought large parts of his assets into his foundation in recent years. Now he announced that the Gates Foundation would spend and close its entire fortune practically over the next 20 years. He estimates that expenses for the next two decades will be over $ 200 billion.