Elon Musk fired back Tuesday at fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates after the Microsoft co-founder accused him of “killing the world’s poorest children” with his work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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,