CNN Money: Why Bill and Melinda Gates are spending a lot of time in Washington
“Bill and Melinda Gates want to keep foreign aid flowing from Washington. But with a president that believes in ‘America First,’ they’re fighting an uphill battle. That’s led the billionaire Microsoft founder and his wife, who together lead the world’s largest private charitable foundation, to Capitol Hill quite a bit these days. And they’re speaking with ‘everybody’ — both the White House and members of Congress — about the importance of foreign aid, Melinda Gates said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow on Tuesday…” (Horowitz, 9/20).