President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) pending a review of its response to the initial novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, after the organization criticized his travel restrictions to China implemented in early February, Axios reports.
“Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump said at a White House press conference.
Trump said that his administration has “deep concerns about whether America’s generosity has been put to the best use possible.” Additionally, Trump accused the health organization of failing to “adequately obtain and share information in a timely and transparent fashion,” stating that the virus “could have been contained at its source.”
Continuing his scorched earth campaign against science and reason, he said that WHO’s opposition to
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