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.
Well they hate Gates as much as they hate Soros so i’m betting this will do less than fuck all.
I think it’s trump’s followers that hate gates, trump likes his money.
“Billionaire who profits off of poor people defends org that profits off of poor people”
Just one Great Man to another. You see, we “normals” need to just shut up and get out of the way of these great men. They’ll figure out what’s best for us all, like a caring father. They are superior to us, after all. They’re like Mr. Incredible, and we’re just some nameless civilian in need of rescue.
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Gates had an interview with some news network about meeting with Trump a few days after his inauguration. Of course he was kissing ass, saying it was a great conversation, that Trump was deeply engaged and wanted to help with HIV/AIDS research.
Less than 2 weeks later Trump killed aid for foreign countries and killed USAID. Wonder if Gates is still willing to bend the knee and kiss ass.
coward
He went to the White House to try and alter the decision. It might be futile but at least he is trying. I hope when the inevitable “lol no” comes from the Trump admin that he raises a stink at that point but it’s ok to try as a first step.
The guy who puts billions of dollars into privatizing schools?
Why don’t they trot out Dick Cheney to endorse USAID?
Walt Disney’s frozen head will be the new head diplomat to Europe.
Sorry, Juan Guaido already declared himself interim head diplomat for Europe. The best development agency in the world has given him 98 million to help.
Not sure where you are getting that. He did spend a couple billion trying to push for smaller schools back in the 2000s that failed but that went to public schools.
The second article breaks down some other spending later on.
Privatizing schools? The Gates foundation is one of the largest contributor to public schools. My wife is an elementary teacher and they get a ton of donations for supplies to programs. I mean, theres no good billionaire but its nice that he developed a concious at some point.
