The White House budget office has told federal agencies to redirect World Health Organization funds to groups that do similar work, indicating a 60-day suspension of WHO funding ordered by President Trump will be permanent.
The funds will flow instead to outfits such as the Red Cross and Samaritan’s Purse after Trump said Tuesday the WHO needed reform after failing to vet coronavirus data from China, contributing to a pandemic that infected more than 650,000 US residents.
The US provided roughly 10 percent of the WHO’s $4.8 billion annual budget. Most US contributions were “voluntary.” Annual US dues were just $58 million, with the next installment not expected until September.
Trump administration officials have ceased “voluntary” contributions from agencies including USAID, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services — totaling about $300 million-$400 million a year.
An administration official told The Post that efforts were underway to redirect “every single pot of money” from the WHO to other organizations. Large international relief organizations already are in many cases doing similar work, they said.
The administration official said that the White House Office of Management and Budget would send any necessary notifications to Congress when there are decisions to redirect funds, though in some cases that may be unnecessary.
read more here: https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/white-house-steers-withheld-who-funds-to-other-organizations/
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the issue here America and the citizen need to wake up to see what's happening in America I am for Samaritan's Purse I am for Franklim Graham but the issue remain the same and that is "America is no longer free"
As Americans we help the World as the World needs help, not as it demands it. Unless we heal our own first, we are useless in providing aide to anyone.As Americans we have never done well at following. Now is our time to tell those we have elected, to represent our will, we are going back to work. Heal us as best you can, if and when we take ill, but to work we will go!
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Exactly
Yes, defund the now Chinese organization, W.H.O!!
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