Trump Floats Cutting Off WHO Funds in the Middle of a Global Crisis
At the same April 3 briefing, Trump announced that the United States would stop contributing funding to the World Health Organization. The move shocked public health officials and handed critics a clean example of the administration escalating a pandemic into a geopolitical tantrum. Even if the threat was partly rhetorical, it risked weakening international coordination when the virus was still accelerating worldwide.
First recorded Apr 3, 2020·Meaningfully updated Apr 3, 2020
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Trump Floats Cutting Off WHO Funds in the Middle of a Global Crisis
At the same April 3 briefing, Trump announced that the United States would stop contributing funding to the World Health Organization. The move shocked public health officials and handed critics a clean example of the administration escalating a pandemic into a geopolitical tantrum. Even if the threat was partly rhetorical, it risked weakening international coordination when the virus was still accelerating worldwide.
At the same April 3 briefing, Trump announced that the United States would stop contributing funding to the World Health Organization. The move shocked public health officials and handed critics a clean example of the administration escalating a pandemic into a geopolitical tantrum. Even if the threat was partly rhetorical, it risked weakening international coordination when the virus was still accelerating worldwid…
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