Trump threatens to permanently freeze WHO funding unless they make big changes

by The Right Scoop

Late last night Trump posted a letter on Twitter to the WHO Director General warning him that unless they make significant changes in the next month, he would make his temporary freeze on funding to the organization permanent:

NY POST – President Trump on Monday threatened to permanently stop US funding to the World Health Organization unless the body commits to “substantive improvements” within the next 30 days.

The announcement was made in a scathing letter Trump sent to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday and later shared screenshots of on Twitter.

“That is why it is my duty, as President of the United States, to inform you that, if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization,” Trump wrote.

“I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving American’s interests,” the letter continued.

The president in the letter said his administration has been in talks with the WHO on “how to reform the organization,” without elaborating on the measures.

Trump in mid-April suspended payments to the WHO and directed his administration to review whether the agency mishandled its response to the coronavirus pandemic coming out of China.

Trump explained in the letter that his administration’s review of the WHO had confirmed what he’d suspected, most notably the “alarming lack of independence from the People’s Republic of China.”

So putting this together with what we learned yesterday, it sounds like Trump may have originally planned to restore funding while calling for the changes. But thanks to Tucker producing the leaked letter last Friday, Trump changed his tactic to what we see here today.

If you want to read the full letter you can do so on Trump’s tweet:


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