{"id":907684,"date":"2025-02-20T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907684"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:13:15","slug":"bill-gates-wants-usaid-back-says-can-save-millions-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/20\/bill-gates-wants-usaid-back-says-can-save-millions-of-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates wants USAID back, says can save millions of lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has emphasised the potential to reverse cuts to USAID funding, arguing that restoring these funds is crucial for saving millions of lives. In a recent discussion, Gates addressed the impact of funding reductions, particularly those by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE), on the agency&#8217;s ability to carry out its vital work.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to a question about the impact of cuts to USAID to Walter Isaacson \u2013 who has written the biographies of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, Gates expressed hope that a significant portion of the funding could be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has emphasised the potential to reverse cuts to USAID funding, arguing that restoring these funds is crucial for saving millions of lives. In a recent discussion, Gates addressed the impact of funding reductions, particularly those by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE), on the agency&#8217;s ability to carry out its vital work. While responding to a question about the impact of cuts to USAID to Walter Isaacson \u2013 who has written the biographies of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, Gates expressed hope that a significant portion of the funding could be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}