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(133,781 posts) Tue Jun 10, 2025, 11:22 AM Jun 2025

Bill Gates Tried to Get Rubio to Reverse Cuts [View all]

Bill Gates Tried to Get Rubio to Reverse Cuts

June 9, 2025 at 11:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/09/bill-gates-tried-to-get-rubio-to-reverse-cuts/

Bill Gates went to the White House and begged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to unwind the DOGE cuts to foreign aid, Tara Palmeri reports.

But the secretary of State “informed Gates that even with Musk out, they have no plans to reverse the cuts.”

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Bill Gates Tried to Get Rubio to Reverse Cuts [View all] applegrove Jun 2025 OP

Deathworld 2025 Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #1

Non white people. applegrove Jun 2025 #2

Just as human as the treasonous orange pile of shit in a blue suit fronting for Dixie. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #6

May as well have been any of us here on DU on the phone Bill BeyondGeography Jun 2025 #3

Maybe the negative PR can force them to backtrack newdeal2 Jun 2025 #4

They want more death in the developing world, not less. maxsolomon Jun 2025 #5

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