Billionaire Bill Gates fired shots against Ilon Mask, saying he is “a little frustrated” by his decision to close the USA International Aid Service (USAID).

The billionaire founder of Microsoft who is now known for his charity initiatives, a few days ago he had stated that Musk ‘He was good with me sometimes and bad with me sometimes”. He appeared in CNN, where he criticized some of Musk’s actions to cut federal spending under the Trump government.

Gates defended USAID, which Musk announced that he would close this week as part of his efforts in the Doge Department. He stressed that the service helped to save millions of lives and served a valuable strategic purpose for the United States in Africa and other parts of the world.

He warned that up to 10 million people could die If global funding for AIDS via the Pepfar program (President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) is stopped abruptly.

The American philanthropist said he was open to “some degree of coordination, but having all these people not to come to work (layoffs) and the whole matter is in a negative way, I am a little disappointed.”

Gates said that the idea of ​​supporting Musk right in Europe was a “surprise”, though he gave him the credit as a “overwhelming” man.

“I am surprised at the multitude of things about which he has opinions, I always had friends around me who care about not to unravel too many things at the same time » he said sharply.

The 69 -year -old clarified that he does not see the idea of ​​evaluating federal services problematic, “But going very quickly and saying that all of these people run a criminal organization, This is not as discreet As far as you would like to see. “

Musk defended his decision to “padlock” to USAID. “As we were investigating USAID, it became clear that what we have here is not an apple with a worm inside, but in reality we just have a worm ball. If you have an apple with a worm inside, you can remove the worm. If you have a whole ball of worms there is no hope »he said. “USAID is a worm ball. There is no apple … so it has to leave. It is non -correctable. ”

It is noted that Gates and Musk had occasionally “crossed their swords” even for the electric Porsche bought by the Microsoft founder, which had annoyed the founder of Tesla.