President Trump’s suspension of U.S. funding to the World Health Organization pending a review of its coronavirus response and propagation of misinformation from the communist Chinese dictatorship offers an opportunity to question the role and workings of the world’s premier taxpayer-funded international health body.

While the funding cut’s focus has been coronavirus-related, recent events highlight the longstanding record of misinformation, mismanagement, and politically biased behavior by the WHO and its representatives, which has eroded the legitimacy of a body once lauded for helping to eradicate smallpox. The WHO should have to radically reform how it does things if it’s to justify receiving hundreds of millions from hardworking American taxpayers every year, especially when its actions have undermined many of the global public health objectives it claims to support.