Elon Musk is behind the deaths of the “world’s poorest children,” blasted rival billionaire Bill Gates on Thursday as he announced plans to wind down his foundation and spend $200 billion on philanthropic efforts by 2045.
Gates said his foundation, which has spent more than $100 billion since he set it up in 2000, would spend close to double that figure on global health, climate and poverty prevention over the next 20 years.
In an interview with The New York Times, Gates attacked Musk, the billionaire adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, for engineering U.S. cuts to aid and development spending in his role leading the Department of Government Efficiency.
“He could go on to be a great philanthropist. In the meantime, the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children,” Gates said.
Gates has previously touted his working relationship with Trump. After a three-hour dinner with Trump after his reelection, he told The New Yorker: “We are not going into opposition. We are continuing the partnership we’ve had with every administration.”
Since then, however, Trump has enacted huge cuts to global health spending and pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, leaving the United Nations agency facing a severe financial crisis.
Gates has reportedly come under pressure from inside his own foundation to do more to oppose Trump and fill the funding gap.
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