{"id":24486,"date":"2020-05-18T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=314383"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:47","slug":"breaking-president-trump-may-restore-the-whos-funding-with-some-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/breaking-president-trump-may-restore-the-whos-funding-with-some-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: President Trump May Restore The WHO\u2019s Funding, With Some Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April, President Trump froze America\u2019s contributions to the World Health Organization, which accounts for the agency\u2019s largest source of funding at roughly $400 million<\/a> per year. The abrupt move was a retaliatory measure meant to punish the agency for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which had the president had accused of the WHO of bungling.<\/span>Even so, criticism of Trump\u2019s decision was swift, with many people \u2013 including doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \u2014 arguing that a global pandemic is exactly the wrong time to strip a global health agency of critical funding.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Flickr\/Jernej Furman<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe U.S. needs the World Health Organization to function properly,\u201d Tom Inglesby, director of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Center for Health Security, told Fox News Sunday. \u201cIt is the organization that helps the world prepare and respond to this. We\u2019re going to need the world to recover from Covid if we\u2019re going to get normalcy back.\u201d Others agreed, calling the president\u2019s decision rash, dangerous, and deadly.<\/span>Now it looks like the president may be rethinking this short-sighted call<\/a>, which proved divisive even within his own party. According to a draft letter obtained by Fox News<\/a>, the White House is considering a plan that will restore some \u2014 but not all \u2014 of the U.N. agency\u2019s funding.<\/span>Lou, this is just one of numerous concepts being considered under which we would pay 10% of what we have been paying over many years, matching much lower China payments. Have not made final decision. All funds are frozen. Thanks! https:\/\/t.co\/xQUzHy4NDa<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2020<\/a><\/span>
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\n<\/span>According to reports, which the president essentially confirmed on Twitter, the White House plans to match China\u2019s contributions moving forward, although these only account for 1\/10 of America\u2019s previous funding. These punitive measures are certainly intended to shame China for its role in the early days of the outbreak, but at what cost? Slashing the WHO\u2019s funding at this critical juncture threatens researchers\u2019 ability to develop a vaccine, prolongs our economic devastation, and will certainly inflate a death toll that\u2019s already claimed 90,000 American lives<\/a>.<\/span>President Trump is correct that the WHO must reevaluate their response to this crisis, as should many government leaders. But those conversations must take place after<\/em> COVID-19 is safely contained, not before. For now, the world urgently needs the WHO\u2019s help delivering vital supplies, training doctors and nurses, and developing a vaccine in order to finally defeat a virus that knows no borders.<\/span>Please sign the petition<\/a> to demand that President Trump immediately restores the WHO\u2019s vital funding.<\/span>
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In April, President Trump froze America\u2019s contributions to the World Health Organization, which accounts for the agency\u2019s largest source of funding at roughly $400 million per year. The abrupt move was a retaliatory measure meant to punish the agency for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which had the president had accused of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45654,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions\/45654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}