Gates Sounds Alarm: Foreign Aid Cuts Fuel Child Deaths, Climate Missteps

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Bill Gates has dominated headlines this week with stark warnings on global health crises tied to foreign aid cuts. In the Gates Foundations 2025 Goalkeepers report, he revealed that child deaths under age five hit 4.6 million in 2024 and are set to rise in 2025 for the first time in 25 years, projecting 200,000 extra deaths from sudden U.S. and other wealthy nations funding slashes under the Trump administration. Fox Business reports Gates bluntly stating these massive cuts have caused lots of deaths, while he remains hopeful after chats with President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that generosity levels will rebound soon. Times of India echoes this, with Gates stressing the next six months are make-or-break for restoring progress.

On climate, Gates dropped a provocative memo two months back titled Three Tough Truths About Climate Change on his Gates Notes blog, arguing doomsday temperature obsessions misleadaction must boost health, livelihoods, and resilience in poor countries or fail entirely. He insists development itself is the best adaptation, citing examples like fertilizer bans backfiring into hunger.

Publicly, Gates spoke on vaccine hesitancy, AI, and global health in a Politico Conversation interview aired December 11, reinforcing his philanthropy push. The Foundations Goalkeepers events raged on, including a December 8 Abu Dhabi gathering with stars like Olivia Wilde, Jon Batiste, and Pastor Rick Warren, focusing on child deaths and polio eradicationfirst Middle East edition uniting Middle East, Africa, and South Asia voices.

But scandal whispers resurfaced December 12 when House Oversight Democrats released Epstein estate photos from 95,000 files, showing Gates with a pilot and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorno Epstein in his shots. Politico notes Gates long called his Epstein meetings a mistake, yet this fuels endless elite intrigue questions. Republicans slammed it as Dem headline-chasing.

Gates Cambridge buzzed too, with Trustee Emerita Mimi Gardner Gates chatting art's world-changing power on December 15, tying back to Bill Sr.s legacy amid their new portraits unveiling. No fresh business deals or social posts surfaced, but his pledge to donate nearly all wealth and shutter the Foundation by 2045 looms large biographically. All verified, no unconfirmed gossip herejust the philanthropist kingpin battling headlines on health, heat, and haunts.

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