{"id":1373,"date":"2025-02-07T20:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:39:48","slug":"bill-gates-sounds-off-after-musks-doge-shutters-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Sounds Off After Musk\u2019s DOGE Shutters USAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates used an appearance with the far-left co-hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday to complain about fellow billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s efforts to shutter USAID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Elon, his private sector work, you know, has been very innovative, really fantastic,\u201d Gates said following news that USAID offices had been closed and the charity\u2019s funds frozen.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of private sector people, when they get into government, they don\u2019t take the time necessarily to see what the good work is or why it\u2019s structured the way it is, so I\u2019m a little worried, particularly with this USAID stuff,\u201d Gates continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy foundation partners with USAID on nutrition and getting vaccines out, and, you know, there\u2019s incredible people,\u201d he added. \u201cYou know, they\u2019re not actually worms that work there. So, you know, hopefully, we\u2019ll get some of that work back in shape. In fact, if we don\u2019t, you know, you could have literally millions of deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates used an appearance with the far-left co-hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d on Tuesday to complain about fellow billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s efforts to shutter USAID.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}