Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates told Fortune they're worried about long-term impacts from the slashing of foreign aid funding.
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00:00What's keeping me up at night is that the strings of our institutions, the threads, are being pulled out.
00:16It's one thing to say, hey, this institution hasn't been as effective as it should be.
00:21Let's go in and do, you know, a reboot of it.
00:24Let's cut 20% of the staff, but to pull the strings from so many institutions and create chaos, I don't think that helps anybody.
00:34Unless the rich countries stay generous, then the progress is going to stop and may even go into reverse.
00:42And so, you know, telling these voters, hey, you should be proud of this.
00:48It is moral. It serves a lot of benefits.
00:51You know, I'll be doing my best to articulate that.
00:54A lot of my time will be telling the truth about foreign aid and trying to keep it to be generous.
01:00But that uncertainty means that how much we'll achieve in the next 20 years.
01:06That's probably the biggest unknown is do our fellow travelers stay generous or do they kind of tune out these millions of deaths and turn inward?
01:19No, no, no, no, no, no, no.