President Trump Looks to Cut WHO Funding

President Donald Trump is considering withholding $123 million of funding meant for the World Health Organization due to their “China-centric” views.

Calling it all Wrong

“I’m not saying I’m going to do it, but we’re going to look at it,” Trump said at the White House Coronavirus briefing Tuesday.

Earlier in the year, Congress allocated roughly $123 million to the WHO, although that money might never reach the organization as Trump expresses his anger with their advice and views that are all “too positive for China.”

The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2020

One of the examples Trump used was the travel bans to and from China – ones that Trump implemented specifically to limit infections, while the WHO disagreed with any and all travel bans due to their supposed historical ineffectiveness.

President Trump also raised suspicion of impropriety in the WHO-China relationship and it could be subject to a United Nations investigation. Despite the differences in contributions, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the WHO received around $513 million from the US in 2017.