Elon Musk rejected Bill Gates’s claim that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is endangering children’s lives by slashing USAID funding, calling Gates a liar and demanding evidence of harm.

Elon Musk clapped back at Bill Gates when asked about his criticism of the Department of Government Efficiency. In response to Gates' remarks to CNN and other publications earlier this month that DOGE's slashes to the US Agency for International Development would lead to "millions of deaths,

Gates accused the Tesla CEO and DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) chief of recklessly gutting US foreign aid programs.