Secretary of State Pompeo: U.S. may never restore funding to WHO (World Health Organization)

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There is no way we should return to the Chinese proxy WHO. China knowingly unleashed this on the world with the aid and complicity of WHO.

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Pompeo warns U.S. may never restore WHO funding

BY: David Brunnstrom, Humeyra Pamuk, Reuters, April 23, 2020:

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said a fundamental reform of the World Health Organization is needed following its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and that the United States, the WHO’s biggest donor, may never restore funding to the U.N. body.

“I think we need to take a real hard look at the WHO and what we do coming out of this,” Pompeo told Fox News late on Wednesday. “We reformed this back in 2007, so this isn’t the first time we’ve had to deal with the shortcomings of this organization that sits inside the United Nations. We need a fix. We need a structural fix with the WHO.”

President Donald Trump suspended U.S. funding of the WHO last week, accusing it of being “China-centric and promoting China’s “disinformation” about the outbreak. WHO officials have denied this and China insists it has been transparent and open.

The United States has been the biggest overall donor to the WHO, contributing over $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of its budget. Senior U.S. officials last week told Reuters Washington could redirect these funds to other aid groups.

Pompeo, asked if he was not ruling out a change in leadership of the WHO, replied: “Even more than that, it may be the case that the United States can never return to underwriting, having U.S. taxpayer dollars go to the WHO.”

But the possibility of the U.S. ceasing its funding definitively to the global body is contingent upon Trump succeeding in his bid for re-election in the November presidential vote, against the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Fellow Democrats blasted Trump’s decision, saying he was trying to divert blame from his administration over its handling of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the United States. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the move to suspend WHO funding “dangerous.”

On Wednesday, Pompeo said the United States “strongly believed” Beijing had failed to report the outbreak in a timely manner, in breach of World Health Organization rules, and had failed to report human-to-human transmission of the virus” for a month until it was in every province inside of China.”

Pompeo said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom did not use his ability “to go public” when a member state failed to follow the rules.

He said the WHO had an obligation to ensure safety standards were observed in virology labs in Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s initial coronavirus outbreak, and its director-general had “enormous authority with respect to nations that do not comply.

The acting head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Wednesday the United States would assess if the WHO was being run properly and look for alternative partners outside the body.

The outbreak of the new coronavirus began late last year in China and has become a global pandemic. According to a Reuters tally, the disease has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide, including nearly 48,000 in the United States, making it the worst-hit country by official statistics.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

How can there be any doubt? It was a coordinated cover up!

VMS
VMS
3 years ago

The WHO is pretty much useless. Let them seek charitable contributions if they wish to remain afloat. Stop using US taxpayer money to fund something that has no direct benefit to us, and in fact tows the CCP’s line.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

What about workers’ rights? What about the environment? What about safety in the workplace? What about outlawing child labor? The captains of industry never had much use for those.

TD
TD
3 years ago

“COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick.”
-W.H.O. (March 2020)

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

Right ON!!! Now, as soon as he is reelected and takes office in January, DJT should :

1) Evict the UN
2) Round up all government-dependent illegal aliens and their anchor babies, and deport them.

We were ruled for 8 years by a Kenyan IslamoMarxist poofter, who almost succeeded in destroying our constitutional republic. If a MarxiCrat wins (Pervy Joe, Cuomo, the Hildebeest, “Big Mike” Obama, etc.) America will be toast, and her main export will be citizens and our savings.

November 3 is our last chance at rescuing our republic from Marxism.

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
3 years ago

More evidence, if we needed it, that the US — and Israel — should withdraw their memberships in the UN. No part of it has done anything useful in the last 30 years.

notme123
notme123
3 years ago

???????????? now get out of the rest of the un

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Keep the US out of WHO
Get the US out of the UN
Get the US out of NATO

Remember what our Founders said …. “Trade with all, alliance WITH NONE”.

Jeanne Ballard
Jeanne Ballard
3 years ago

Dump funding for WHO like a bad habit

Thistle
Thistle
3 years ago

Good, no one on earth should give them a nickel. Look what they have done to us!

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