Oh, contraire, mon ennemi ... NOW is most definitely the time to defund your sorry, worthless ass.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/w-h-o-responds-to-trumps-defunding-threat-now-is-not-the-time
The World Health Organization, keen on avoiding discussion of its deep ties to the Chinese government, fired back at President Donald Trump Wednesday morning, warning the president that "now is not the time" to discuss pulling the United States' ample funding from the nearly useless group. ...
The WHO is definitely concerned about the United States' position on their funding; the American government is the single largest donor to the international health watchdog, with contributions topping $400 million in 2019 alone.
But as the global coronavirus pandemic unfolded, the WHO's utility has been brought into question, particularly given its deference to official Chinese reports on the virus, which deliberately underplayed COVID-19's severity and likely delayed appropriate response to the pandemic in the United States and elsewhere. ...
"The WHO really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look," Trump said. ...
The WHO's ties to China run deep, however. According to Foreign Policy magazine, which published an in-depth look at the connections between the WHO and Chinese officials, the WHO both "receives funding from China and is dependent on the regime of the Communist Party on many levels," the outlet reported.
[The WHO's] international experts didn't get access to the country until Director-General Tedros Adhanom visited President Xi Jinping at the end of January," according to FP. "Before then, WHO was uncritically repeating information from the Chinese authorities, ignoring warnings from Taiwanese doctors - unrepresented in WHO, which is a United Nations body - and reluctant to declare a 'public health emergency of international concern,' denying after a meeting Jan. 22 that there was any need to do so."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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