Why Trump’s Order to Stop Funding WHO Triggers Debate on Corruption, Healthcare & Military Spending

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he was halting funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for 60 to 90 days while his administration is inquiring about the entity’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its alleged cover-up of the spread of the coronavirus. Given that US taxpayers provide between $400 million and $500 million to the organisation annually, “the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability” of the WHO’s decision-making, Trump stressed. For his part, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret at Trump’s intent to suspend funding, adding that the entity would seek to fill financing gaps from other donors amid the coronavirus crisis. Why Trump Halts Funding to Int’l Organisations Not only the WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic but its initiatives carried out over the past decades deserve scrutiny, argues Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist, who endorses Trump’s decision to investigate the entity. “Headquartered in one of the most expensive cities on earth, the WHO and other slush funds including the Global Fund and Unitaid, among others, have yet to account rigorously for sums approaching and possibly exceeding $100 billion sent there to the WHO starting in 2001”, he… Read full this story

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