Trump threatens permanent freeze on WHO funding without 'major' reforms within 30 days
Posted on AllSides May 19th, 2020
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President Trump on Monday threatened to permanently halt U.S. funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if the body does not commit to "major substantive improvements" in the next 30 days.
The president, in a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, levied a series of allegations that the global health entity overlooked or ignored various warning signs about the coronavirus and criticized its stance toward China during the pandemic.
"We do not have time to waste," he wrote. "That is why it is my duty, as President of the...