Trump threatens to halt WHO funding, review U.S. membership
Source: Reuters
MAY 19, 2020 / 03:27 AM / UPDATED 2 MINUTES AGO
(Reuters) -
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within within 30 days, and to reconsider his countrys membership of the agency.
My administration has already started discussions with you on how to reform the organization. But action is needed quickly. We do not have time to waste."
Monday's letter on official White House letterhead, screenshots of which were posted to Twitter, assails the WHO's stance toward China throughout the pandemic and lists a series of allegations that the organization overlooked warning signs.
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"If the WHO does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the WHO permanent and reconsider our membership," Trump told its chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a letter posted bit.ly/3bNB3R7 on Twitter.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-threatens-to-halt-who-funding-review-u-s-membership-idUSKBN22V0B0
Its always somebody elses fault.
turbinetree
(24,735 posts)deflection.............. .
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He doesn't give a sht about the WHO's internal problems. And he doesn't care that they are in the middle of a pandemic and trying feverishly to help 212 countries save people.
Oh, no, he got in a snit at some point and is now 'giving them 30 days".
I really don't understand how Trump can unilaterally renege on treaties and memberships and funding passed by Congress. Just because he DOES, I guess, and no one can stop him.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
ananda
(28,887 posts)WHO will not cave.
They have other sources of funding.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)about the virus and Trump couldn't have ignored the warnings.
I'm not quite sure how that would have helped us, really. The WHO told the world about COVID-19. The world ignored that organization's warnings.
So, that's why we should stop funding the WHO? How does that make any sense?
ripcord
(5,553 posts)The Republic of China has done very well combating covid-19 and is having success with vaccine trials, keeping them away had nothing to do with dealing with this disease and everything to do with politics. If that is how the WHO is run why should we bother with it? I hope this spurs The Republic of China to flat out declare its self a free country, demand membership in the U.N. so we can end this ridiculous political theater.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)When there was plenty of evidence supporting the contrary. Trump is an evil fuck but the WHO is not without failings and shouldnt be held up on a pedestal IMO.
Greg K
(599 posts)Bayard
(22,184 posts)machoneman
(4,016 posts)WHO is the leading edge btw in monitoring the world-wide effort to develop a proven vaccine. If for example a WHO member government or private WHO member lab rolls out even limited dosages of said vaccine by say October, they will first send it to any country, China included, before we in America would get it, let alone for free. This would kill Trumpy as WHO can claim that well, since you blocked all aid and dropped your membership in our organization, why should we give you any doses?
Only Trumpy, in the middle of a world-wide pandemic, would shut off all relations with the only world-class and world-wide health organization that has helped all countries since 1946 in fighting all kinds of diseases. Read all about it below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
Only the Orange Menace............dufus!
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)No cooperation, no positions for US nationals, no info sharing with US labs, industry, or universities. Finis. Come back when you feel like acting like adults.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Will do it without trump. Maybe thats what trump is mad about. That and the free vaccine.
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)What does that even mean?
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)it is always all about avoiding blame for Trump. So, Trump is threatening funding until the WHO agrees to accept responsibility for Trump's incompetence.
The problem is you also can't trust Trump. So, if you accept the deal with Trump, he will still withhold funding because the WHO has now accepted the blame directed at Trump.