Trump drafted an executive order to decrease U.S. funding of international organizations by 40 percent Immediately after he took office in January 2017. I think that's a shameful act by the leader of the richest country in the world.
Now he's stopping payments to the World Health Organization.
I think the SF Chronicle is right in calling his attack on an organization that is guiding the global response "dangerous" and "disingenuous." How will the organization operate with this reduced budget? Bill Gates, whose organization is WHO's second most significant "donor," has criticized this move.
After WHO declared this "a public health emergency of international concern" at the end of January, Trump waited another six weeks before declaring a national emergency and turned down WHO's test in favor of domestic efforts that weren't sufficient. Now the USA, which has only 1/20th of the world's population, has 1/4 of the confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 1/5 of the global death toll.
(I credit the SF Chronicle as my source of plagiarism.)
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