Trump threatens to permanently cut WHO funding, leave body if changes aren't made within 30 days
Source: Washington Post
President Trump threatened Monday to permanently halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization and reconsider the countrys membership in the United Nations body if it does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days.
In a letter to the WHO posted in a late-night tweet, Trump said the global health agency floundered in its early responses to the coronavirus outbreak. In particular, he continued to attack the organization and its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accusing them of being too soft on China, where the virus is believed to have originated.
Trump temporarily suspended U.S. payments in April for 60 days, an unpopular move that critics said was aimed at distracting from his own administrations response to the pandemic. His ultimatum Monday, which came as WHO member countries conferred about the pandemic, may provoke more backlash at the international level.
The president did not specify what changes were needed for him to restore U.S. donations, the WHOs largest single source of funding. But he said discussions between the United States and the agencys leaders were already underway.
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Sounds like diaper Donny is having another tantrum
onecaliberal
(32,812 posts)stopbush
(24,393 posts)to blame for my fuck up.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,401 posts)What a marooon.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)It's all so painfully obvious what he's doing:
Blaming President Obama
Blaming WHO
Blaming the governors
etc
etc
poli-junkie
(1,002 posts)While the WHO is making sure the eventual vaccine is accessible to ALL.
It's all about lining his pockets.
Chainfire
(17,519 posts)May be just a matter of months. What Trump doeth by executive order can be undoneth by executive order.
Submariner
(12,502 posts)He knows the over 65ers support any and all C19 vaccine research, and this would guarantee the over 65ers would vote for Biden who would restore funding on inauguration day.
Trump is just jerking off on everyone bc he's a world class asshole and that's what aholes like him do for sport.
olddad65
(599 posts)Dangerous and unsafe for US citizens. He doesnt even care about the suckers that worship him. They are just trumpsuckers.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)well, you can figure it out.
gembaby1
(253 posts)Do what you want and leave the rest of the fucking world alone, asshole.
littlemissmartypants
(22,628 posts)Just more bloviating. I wish he'd choke on his own tongue.
U.S. Was Behind On Payments To WHO Before Trump's Cutoff
May 7, 20205:01 AM ETIn mid-April, when President Trump declared, "Today I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization," Jimmy Kolker did a double take.
"We were already in arrears before he said anything," says Kolker, who was an assistant secretary for global health affairs during the Obama administration.
Kolker has seen the U.S. get behind before on its payments to the WHO, though never to the degree that it has during the Trump administration. Amid the worst global health disaster of the past century, he notes that close to $200 million was already past due the WHO.
No country owes the World Health Organization more in annual dues than the United States. The $118 million that Washington is supposed to pay the group this year amounts to nearly a quarter of the annual fees the WHO assesses to all 194 of its member states.