As you know, the World Health Organization (WHO) is a United Nations agency that focuses on addressing health globally. Evidence suggests that the WHO backed the Chinese Community Party (CCP) in regurgitating lies and withholding information about COVID-19. This organization claims to be neutral but has too often simply copied and pasted the CCP's talking points about the virus.
The United States has been a significant financial contributor to the WHO, providing roughly $262 million each year between 2012 and 2019. The Trump Administration rightly criticized the WHO due to its failure to respond effectively to coronavirus reports and for its favoritism towards China, and subsequently announced the decision to withdraw our funding in April 2020. Following this action, the Trump Administration announced the United States would end its affiliation with the organization altogether. Sadly, President Biden rejoined the WHO in January 2021 in yet another example of his "America Last" foreign policy.
Recently, the Biden Administration proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations treaty. This is a purported attempt to achieve greater cooperation in sharing information related to public health emergencies after China's lack of transparency during the outbreak of COVID-19. These administrative amendments would strongly encourage member nations to voluntarily communicate additional and more timely information with the WHO during times of pandemic and disease outbreak. The amendments would allow the WHO to determine that there is a public health emergency over the objection of the country where the outbreak originated, and there is no guarantee that the WHO would not side with the Communist Chinese again in the future to the detriment of the rest of the world.
Continuing to fund the WHO's mission puts America's interests last, and supports the advancement of globalism. The Trump Administration was absolutely correct in withdrawing the United States from the WHO and ending our taxpayer contributions to it. For this reason, I cosponsored H.R.419, No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization which was introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). This bill would prohibit the United States from providing one more penny to the WHO.
Sincerely,
Bob Good
Member of Congress
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