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Home Front: Politix

Global health agency on chopping block as Republicans threaten to cut off funds

2025-01-16

[FoxNews] Rep Chip Roy is leading the No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act

A group of House Republicans is pushing to completely block U.S. funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).

Like our own federal health bureaucracies, they’ve been stretching beyond their mandate in recent years, as far as I can tell. A sharp cut in funds and support will allow them the time and space to rethink their priorities, and in time come back to the America and the world with a better definition of their role and responsibilities.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, policy chair for the conservative House Freedom Caucus, introduced the bill on Tuesday and argued the international health body "doesn't serve our interests and doesn't deserve our money."

He also attacked WHO member countries’ current effort to draft an international pandemic preparedness treaty, accusing the organization of a bid to consolidate and further its own influence.

"Taking money from hardworking families struggling with the aftermath of Biden's inflation crisis to send it to a bunch of leftist ‘public health’ tyrants in Geneva is unacceptable," Roy told Fox News Digital.

"I am confident that President Trump will cut the WHO's funding off — as he did last time — but this legislation will ensure that no future administration can restart it."

At least a dozen GOP lawmakers are backing the bill.

A significant number of Republicans, including President-elect Donald Trump, have been critical of the WHO, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump announced he was halting funding to the WHO during his first term in April 2020, a move that drew blowback from the U.S. medical community, Politico reported at the time.

"Fighting a global pandemic requires international cooperation and reliance on science and data," Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association, told the outlet.

However, conservatives in Congress have viewed the organization as a power-hungry group that did not take U.S. interests into account.

The U.S. is currently the biggest contributor to the WHO, according to World Population Review. The organization's website states that 60% of its funding comes from member states.

Roy’s "No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act" would stop all contributions to WHO, both committed and other voluntary funding.

A spokesperson for WHO said the body was focused on maintaining its relationship with the U.S. when reached for comment on Roy's bill.

"The WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in December, at a press conference, that the new U.S. administration has not yet taken office and it requires time, like any new government, to do so. As Dr Tedros has said, WHO will do everything to cooperate with the incoming U.S. administration to continue to strengthen global health security," the spokesperson said.

"I would add that the WHO-US partnership, and America’s contribution to global health security more broadly, has protected and saved millions of lives in America and around the world. WHO values greatly its relationship with the US and is committed to maintaining and strengthening it."

Posted by:Skidmark

#10 There is no threaten. There is only do.

Posted by: Cured Romantic 2025-01-16 20:17

#9 Unhealthiest generation ever.
Can't locate origin of virus in 4 years.
Questionable injections.
Unaccountable.
No public money audit.

Cut it.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-16 14:24

#8 Do or do not. There is no try.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-16 10:24

#7 ^5 & ^6

YEP!
Now add 25 years of fine tuning, given the DNA research over that period of time.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-16 09:24

#6 terrifying 'eye-bleeding disease'

Hemorrhagic fever, bats, Africa - yes, I am as surprised as you are.

Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-16 09:17

#5 Project Coast

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-16 07:51

#4 /\ Project Coast.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-16 07:36

#3 ^
Waiting for the DNA based BIO Weapons to be fielded.

Then there will be a weapon that only attacks those persons with certain DNA markers.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-16 07:30

#2 /\ Biological weapon

The Soviet Union had an extensive offensive and defensive biological weapons program that included MARV.[83] At least three Soviet research institutes had MARV research programs during the Cold War: The Virology Center of the Scientific Research Institute for Microbiology in Zagorsk (today Sergiev Posad), the Scientific-Production Association "Vektor" (today the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vektor") in Koltsovo, and the Irkutsk Scientific-Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk.[83]

As most performed research was highly classified, it remains unclear how successful the MARV program was. However, Soviet defector Ken Alibek claimed that a weapon filled with MARV was tested at the Stepnogorsk Scientific Experimental and Production Base in Stepnogorsk, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (today Kazakhstan),[83] suggesting that the development of a MARV biological weapon had reached advanced stages. Independent confirmation for this claim is lacking. At least one laboratory accident with MARV, resulting in the death of Koltsovo researcher Nikolai Ustinov, occurred during the Cold War in the Soviet Union and was first described in detail by Alibek.[83]

MARV is a select agent under US law.[84]

Probabaly little more than a coincidence.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-16 07:05

#1 Urgent warning for travellers over new outbreak of terrifying 'eye-bleeding disease' that's already killed eight

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-16 06:15

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