Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates pushed back against Elon Musk amid the world’s richest man’s aggressive and likely unconstitutional upheaval of the federal government, saying the DOGE chief was off base to describe the US Agency for International Development as a “ball of worms” that needs to be “shut down.”
Gates, who is currently promoting his new book Source Code, has spent much of his media tour in recent days expressing concern about Musk’s government power grab. During an interview with the Times of London, Gates denounced the Tesla CEO’s political activities – which included endorsing a far-right German political party – as “insane s***” and “populist stirring.” At the same time, Gates also recently told The Independent that while Musk has been “mean” to him and he was “surprised” by his support of Donald Trump, he still looked forward to working with the “brilliant” mega-billionaire.
