India, Feb. 19 -- Bill Gates has expressed grave concerns over Donald Trump's decision to ax USAID. In a PBS interview on Monday, the Microsoft founder said that the president's sudden move to halt the independent agency and reduce its workforce of over 10,000 to less than 300 has left millions of lives at stake. The 69-year-old urged the commander-in-chief, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to rethink the shutdown of the US foreign aid spending.

"I'm hopeful that some significant portion of that can be reversed and preserved," Gates told journalist Walter Isaacson during the discussion, which aired on Amanpour and Company's YouTube channel.

The billionaire entrepreneur went on to say, "Elon, of all the elimin...