Trump To Stop WHO Funding – Burning Issues

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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the WHO’s budget in the world. Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget request proposed cutting funding $122 million to about $58 million.

According to the WHO, the United States provided 14.67% of its funding in 2018-2019.
The WHO has been the most prominent global organization leading the strategy to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“We appreciate the seriousness with which China is taking this outbreak, especially the commitment from top leadership, and the transparency they have demonstrated,” Tedros said, in comments that would be repeatedly quoted in China’s state media for weeks.

Senator Jim Risch, chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for an independent investigation into the WHO handling of the COVID-19 response.
“The WHO has failed not only the American people, it has failed the world with its flagrant mishandling of the response to COVID-19,” said Risch.
“Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ apparent unwillingness to hold the Chinese Communist Party to even the minimum standard of global health and transparency hindered the world’s ability to blunt the spread of this pandemic. It is completely unacceptable that the world’s global health organization has become a political puppet of the Chinese government,” he alleged.

Is thistheright time to cut WHO funding? Since many developing countries are depending on WHO’s assistance to fight Covid 19
An investigation in WHO is understandable, but blocking the funding would make it more difficult for the world to fight against Covid 19