Trump threatens ‘permanent’ pull of WHO funding without commitment to ‘substantive improvements’

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President Trump threatened to halt funding to the World Health Organization unless it makes “substantive” changes.

Trump posted a letter addressed to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus with the ultimatum on social media late Monday night. In the letter, he announced that the administration’s review “confirmed many of the serious concerns [he] raised,” specifically noting the organization’s “alarming lack of independence from the People’s Republic of China.”

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