President Trump said Saturday morning that he is considering restoring some funding to the World Health Organization, after the White House froze U.S. contributions to the international agency last month despite widespread criticism from global leaders and Democrats in Congress who view the move as dangerous.
Trump wrote in a Twitter post the payments could be 10% of what the United States has historically paid to the international health agency, “matching much lower China payments.” He said no final decision has been made yet and funds are currently still frozen.
The U.S. cut funding to the WHO in April after Trump said the organization made errors that “caused so much death” amid the Covid-19 pandemic. He said a review of the WHO’s actions would be conducted and that “one of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO” was its opposition to the travel restrictions he placed on China and other countries at the onset of the outbreak.
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