What does it mean for the Gates Foundation when Trump cuts off foreign help?

On December 27th, Bill Gates, the billionaire Philanthrop, made a trip to Mar-A-Lago for dinner with Donald J. Trump. Some people around him were surprised that he had decided to go, but Mr. Gates wants to listen to whoever.

The dinner lasted three hours and Mr. Trump seemed to have amusement, said one person nearby. They talked about polio – an interest in both men – and Mr. Gates let the meeting “openly impressed” of the interest of the incoming president in global health.

So he told Wall Street Journal. His comments, which he repeated some friends, not well. Less than a month after dinner with Mar-A-Lago, Mr. Trump was inaugurated and immediately turned to work to tear down the global health infrastructure that underpins Mr. Gates's work.

Next week, the Gates Foundation is planning to celebrate its achievements with its 25th anniversary, including help to reduce global child mortality in half since 2000. In a moment of self-wishes, however, the foundation, which gives $ 9 billion every year, should be exposed to serious threats for both works and their future.

Two days after Mr. Trump frozen all US foreign aid, Elon Musk began to disassemble the United States Agency for International Development, which provides help worldwide – including vaccines, treatments and technologies that were created in the laboratories created by the Gates Foundation.

At the same time, the Trump government has a retaliation campaign against institutions -universities, large law firms -which it perceives it as too liberal. Philanthropies were nervous, provided they will be the next goal of his anger. You are concerned that the president will use his law enforcement authorities by investigating non -profit institutions. And they fear a challenge for their tax-exempt status-one threat, which Mr. Trump expressly made against Harvard University when she refused to bend his demands.