Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being ‘involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children’

Bill Gates took aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with The New York Times, saying funding cuts to USAID will cause childhood deaths to increase. “On childhood deaths, which over the next few years should have gone from five million to four million — now, unless there’s a big reversal, we’ll probably go from five million to six million,” Gates said.

Earlier this year, Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “frankly impressed” with the interest Trump expressed in the issues Gates brought up during a three-hour-long dinner last December. Months later, Trump and government efficiency czar Musk tore into federal funding — a move that “rattled” the Gates Foundation, as reported by the Times.

“The reductions to U.S.A.I.D. are stunning,” Gates said during this latest interview. “I thought there’d be, like, a 20 percent cut. Instead, right now, it’s like an 80 percent cut. And yes, I did not expect that. I don’t think anybody expected that.”