Bill Gates defends USAID’s work after meeting with Trump and White House chief of staff
Billionaire Bill Gates, the optimist and co -founder of Microsoft, said he met President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to defend the continued disbursement of foreign aid from the United States Agency for International Development.
“I went to the White House because there is a lot in this transition, and what we keep, in terms of external aid, what we keep – everything in the air.” interview. “I am doing my best to make sure that we keep the things that I think depends on the very value.”
Gates said he had a “short meeting” with Trump and a “long meeting” with Chief of Staff Suzy Wales, who called him “very studied.” He spoke to Gutry at an event at George Washington University, where he was promoting his new book.
“I went through this,” Gates, who participated in the launch of the Gates Foundation, said in 2000.
He said, referring to the operations of the American Agency for International Development worldwide. “I know all development agencies in all countries, and this is the best of them.”
The Trump administration has taken the goal of the United States Agency for International Development, a taxpayer -funded agency Hand over billions of dollars In the humanitarian aid of other countries, but it attracted attention from the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Elon Musk, which accused it of waste spending. The American Agency for International Development has been placed almost All direct appointments In the administrative leave after the reforms under the Trump administration. The agency’s website has become dark, and management Temporarily External aid.
Gates said that the repetition of the effect of the US Agency for International Development is likely to be difficult.
“The introduction of these people there in the depths of their experience, this is one of the assets that it will be very difficult to re -establish,” he said.
The White House immediately did not respond to Wednesday night, questions about the meetings.
When Gutry asked if Trump and Wales seemed to be receptive to his arguments, Gates answered, “I hope so.”
Gates Gates told that he did not meet Musk, a driving force behind the cuts he had It is indicated Usaid As a “criminal organization” amid his efforts to prepare it, to discuss the case.
“I don’t know how open it is,” said Gates Gothy.
While Gates said he “has nothing but admiration” to create Musk with Tesla and Spacex, he said that when people move to the public sector, “sometimes people estimate that this is different from the private sector.”
“Even in the private sector, 100 % of people are rarely preparing during the night,” he said, and it appears to refer to Musk’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce.
