{"id":6325,"date":"2025-02-16T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2025-02-16T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:52:20","slug":"bill-gates-sounds-off-after-musks-doge-shutters-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/bill-gates-sounds-off-after-musks-doge-shutters-usaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Sounds Off After Musk\u2019s DOGE Shutters USAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates appeared on The View to criticize Elon Musk\u2019s decision to shut down USAID under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. While acknowledging Musk\u2019s private sector success, Gates expressed concerns about the agency\u2019s closure, emphasizing its role in global health and humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n<p>USAID, led by Samantha Power during much of the Biden administration, has faced scrutiny for financial mismanagement, alleged funding of Wuhan lab research, and aid for foreign humanitarian and LGBT initiatives. Power, a former UN ambassador, was also linked to the Obama administration\u2019s surveillance of Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Musk recently announced on X that USAID is being dismantled, citing wasteful spending. Critics argue that Power\u2019s leadership oversaw billions in questionable allocations, including nearly $45 million for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. In November 2024, Syrian national Mahmoud Al Hafyan was charged with diverting $9 million in U.S. aid to terrorist groups. Republicans continue to investigate USAID\u2019s spending history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates appeared on The View to criticize Elon Musk\u2019s decision to shut down USAID under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. While acknowledging Musk\u2019s private sector success, Gates expressed concerns about the agency\u2019s closure, emphasizing its role in global health and humanitarian efforts. USAID, led by Samantha Power during much of the Biden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}