Bill Gates won’t give up. Microsoft co-founder turns to philanthropists is continuing his open campaign against the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to U.S. foreign aid, warning of disastrous and preventable consequences of global health programs.
His strategy is twofold: alerting the direct cost of artificial costs while highlighting the long-term interests of the United States. He just did it.
Gates magnifies the painful, first-hand account of an African doctor, a clinic funded by Pepfar (the U.S. President’s AIDS Relief Emergency Program) and is on the verge of collapse. The post was delivered by Sam Stein of Bulwark, detailing how to save lives for children in “weeks.”
“We’ve been waiting for months to replenish supplies,” the doctor testified. “It’s not just us.”
The crisis stems directly from the Trump administration’s decision to cut foreign aid and close agencies like the United States Agency for International Development, a move that was severely affected by Elon Musk’s federal government Chainsaw (DOGE). Gates grabbed the doctor’s cry from his heart to drive away the real world influence.
“The devastating effects of these cuts are completely preventable, and it’s not too late,” the billionaire announced on X on July 11.
The devastating effects of these cuts are completely preventable, and it is not too late to reverse them.
– Bill Gates (@billgate) July 11, 2025
On the same day, Gates released a video highlighting the historical success of the United States in global vaccination efforts. He explained that vaccines are the main reason for the halving of childhood deaths in the past few decades, from 10 million to 5 million a year. He warned that the government’s proposal to lay off employees to the vaccine coalition Gavi directly resulted in “another one million deaths”.
“I hope we can keep our generosity so that these people can live,” Gates concluded.
Thanks to vaccines, few children die from preventable diseases around the world. Cutting money for them will reverse that progress and put millions of children at risk. pic.twitter.com/uf7iaasepq
– Bill Gates (@billgate) July 11, 2025
This is not Gates’ new struggle. In early July, he condemned the devastating effects of layoffs, citing a grim study by the Lancet in the Journal of Medicine. “A recent study conducted on the Lancet examined the cumulative impact of the decline in U.S. aid. It found that by 2040, 8 million children will die before their fifth birthday,” Gates said. His conclusion is outspoken: “The fact is simple and devastating: life has been paid for the cuts, and deaths will continue to increase.”
In a May interview with the Financial Times, Gates was more direct, placing the blame on the architects who have cut costs. “The picture of the richest people in the world killing the poorest children in the world is not a pretty child,” he said of Elon Musk. He repeated a line of versions from the New York Times, noting that while Musk could become a great philanthropist, “at the same time, the richest people in the world are involved in the death of the poorest children in the world.”
