Summary
Bill Gates met with Trump and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to advocate for continuing USAID’s foreign aid programs.
The Trump administration has frozen them amid scrutiny from Elon Musk.
Gates praised USAID as the world’s best development agency and warned its dismantling would be difficult to reverse.
While Trump and Wiles’ response was unclear, Gates noted he had not spoken with Musk, who has called USAID a “criminal organization” and pushed for deep federal workforce cuts.
Gates is moving up my list. Please do more of this
Make no mistake, he does it because it is good business[1], not because Gates is a humanitarian.
Because it opens peoples and countries up for economic cooperation, resource deals etc. ↩︎
Are you sure that’s the sole reason?
He has been at the forefront of the battle against Malaria and HIV for decades. Killing this program is a big deal for him.