(LZ) – Bill Gates, philanthropist and Microsoft founder, criticized the Trump administration’s push to reduce the U.S.’s $30 billion foreign aid budget — and praised the idea of privacy regulations on big tech as well. “Fortunately the Congress took that proposal [to cut the USAID budget], which would have meant cutting people off from those HIV medicines, and they decided to maintain the foreign aid levels,” Gates told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace in an interview that aired Sunday morning. The interview
with Gates took place on Tuesday at the U.S Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Gates also addressed the statement by his wife, Melinda Gates, that she was disappointed about the “deteriorating” U.S. leadership and “egregious things that have been said by this current administration.” Bill Gates contended the president’s America First maxim does not preclude the country’s engagement in countries like Africa. Instead, he argued that humanitarian efforts outside the U.S. fall within the broad definition of maximizing the nation’s benefit. READ MORE
