President Trump on Tuesday said his administration will halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) pending a review of the global body.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492813-trump-to-halt-who-funding-amid-review
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Trump declared that the United States would undertake a 60-to-90 day investigation into why the "China-centric" WHO had caused "so much death" by "severely mismanaging and covering up" the coronavirus' spread.
The United States is the WHO's largest single donor, and the State Department had previously planned to provide the agency $893 million in the current two-year funding period.
"We have deep concerns over whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible," Trump said, accusing the WHO of failing to adequately keep the international community apprised of the threat of the coronavirus.
"The WHO failed in this duty, and must be held accountable," Trump said. He added that the WHO had ignored "credible information" in December 2019 that the virus could be transmitted from human to human.
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