Democrats Seek to Force Trump to Obey WHO

Timothy Birdnow

The President cannot be compelled to obey a foreign power. This is monstrously unconstitutional.

Democrat Senator's Bill Would Force Trump to Follow WHO Directions on Pandemics

From the article:

TheCOVID-19 International Response and Recovery Act(CIRRA), sponsored by Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), authorizes $9 billion in already-appropriated and new emergency funding to address the pandemic. It cedes the President’s executive authority to coordinate government responses in any future global health emergencies to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international agencies.

The bill authorizes $2.8 billion in new and arrear payments to all UN Agencies including to the World Health Organization, UN Population Fund, Pan American Health Organization and the World Bank.

The bill would require the President and federal agencies to follow the lead of the World Health Organization. It achieves this by increasing funding for international agencies and by establishing multiple layers of new federal bureaucracy to align U.S. policy with global policy. The bill would make it harder for the U.S. to take unilateral decisions during pandemics, including travel restrictions like the ones put in place by the Trump Administration in February on all travel from China to the U.S.

Democrat lawmakers opposed the Trump Administration’s decision to halt payments to the WHO pending an investigation on whether its handling of the pandemic was politically influenced by China. Experts say the delayed response by WHO to inform the global community about the virus resulted in a greater loss of lives. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of nearly 300,000 people globally with close to 90,000 in the United States.

The bill would also circumvent President Trump’s decision to withhold funds to the UN Population Fund. The Trump administration revoked its funding citing its complicity in China’s coerced family planning programs.

This is truly astonishing in light of the World Health Organizations' cozy and protective relationship with China. The WHO has done more to protect the Chinese from blame for their actions in this worldwide pandemic than they have taken steps to protect the health of the world's population.

Ceding authority to them is walking very close to the definition of treason.

America must remember this.

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