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crickets

(25,896 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 08:31 PM Apr 2020

Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year

Threats to cut WHO funding aren't new, but trump doesn't really have control over that. As usual, he's spouting off part of a wish list as though he can do things he really can't.

Congress has the purse strings.

‘Now is not the time’: WHO responds to Trump’s threat to cut funding APR08

The WHO responded Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s threat to cut its funding, saying the move would not be appropriate during the global coronavirus pandemic.

“We are still in the acute phase of a pandemic so now is not the time to cut back on funding,” Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, told a virtual briefing, according to Reuters. [snip]

It’s uncertain how the U.S. would withhold funding. Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year, and while Trump has proposed only $58 million of funding in fiscal year 2021, Congress is unlikely to authorize such a drastic funding cut, especially in the the middle of the pandemic.


This reminds me of how trump keeps refusing to 'open the ACA enrollment.' He doesn't have to. He has nothing to do with it. Special enrollment periods are always there for people who qualify, i.e. people who have experienced a life changing event. Losing your job qualifies as a life changing event. If you have questions there's a phone number on the web site and someone can help walk you through the process.

This is part of his schtick as a control freak: he threatens to withhold the thing someone needs in order to bully people into giving him what he wants. He got away with bullying Ukraine for a while until he got caught. He's getting away with stealing supplies from the citizenry for now, outrageously, but he can't punish the WHO by withholding funds he does not control. He's pretending. It's pathetic.


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Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year (Original Post) crickets Apr 2020 OP
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Andy823

(11,495 posts)
3. You wold think
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 04:52 PM
Apr 2020

"someone" in his administration would know these things, but then again they all came out of the bottom of the swamp, so maybe not!

On the other hand trump "always" says things even though he has no clue at all what is really going on. Narcissists love to make a big show of things, especially when trying to put the blame for something the did on to someone else!

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