Unlike his Big Tech peers, Microsoft founder Bill Gates —who has doled out $60 billion worth of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —has taken a more defensive stance on Trump's agenda. Gates recently met with the President to advocate against cutting HIV funding and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a humanitarian aid agency that Trump is looking to shut down. " Getting those people out there in their depth of experience, that's an asset that would be very hard to recreate," Gates told NBC's TODAY show of the agency, adding that his foundation gives " billions of dollars to the same thing that USAID does ."