Devastating effects of these cuts are ...: Bill Gates alarms again on USAID funding that Elon Musk slammed him for
Bill Gates
has once again raised alarms about the "devastating effects" of
USAID
funding cuts. In a recent post on X, the tech billionaire asserted that it's not too late to reinstate the
international aid
that US President Donald Trump ordered to reduce. The latest warning comes after Tesla CEO
Elon Musk
recently criticised the tech billionaire regarding these very concerns about
USAID funding cuts
, which Gates has been warning about for some time now. In his latest post on X, Gates wrote:
'The devastating effects of these cuts are entirely preventable—and it's not too late to reverse them.'
Gates was responding to a post quoting an unnamed aid worker in Africa who highlighted critical shortages in medical supplies — including missing shipments of
HIV medication
for children, expiring stock, a lack of oxygen tubes for newborns, and limited treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
Soon after sharing this post, Gates even shared a video of himself talking about how cutting the aid will affect the supply of vaccines that have reduced the number of child deaths.
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Gates wrote:
'Thanks to vaccines, fewer children are dying from preventable diseases around the world. Cutting funding for them would reverse that progress and put millions of children in danger.'
What Elon Musk said about Bill Gates' USAID cuts warning
Earlier this month, Gates also criticised the USAID cuts by sharing a thread of facts that claimed that health aid cuts by the US government 'will cost lives.' This prompted a response from the world's richest person.
When a X user replied to Gates' post, suggesting he should
"make up for the difference"
given his personal wealth, Musk agreed with
"Exactly."
Musk further commented,
"The real reason Bill Gates is unhappy is that HIS organisation isn't getting billions in US taxpayer money anymore.'
All this comes after US President Donald Trump's administration had placed staff members at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave in February, with the independent agency's last day being June 30.
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