Posted on 04/16/2020 7:20:27 AM PDT by granada
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed to oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend funding for the World Health Organisation (WHO), a move widely criticised as dangerous and harmful during a global pandemic. “The president’s halting of funding to the WHO as it leads the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic is senseless,” Pelosi said in a statement. “This decision is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged.” Trump announced his intention to suspend the funding on Tuesday, accusing the United Nations’ public health agency of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus”. Payments would be held for up to 90 days, during which time the administration would investigate the agency’s response, and a resumption in payments would be contingent on the outcome of the inquiry, Trump said.
With its payments accounting for about 15 per cent of the organisation’s US$6.2 billion budget over the past two years, the US is the WHO’s biggest contributor. Washington’s outlays of foreign aid, including to the WHO, must be approved by Congress as part of the annual federal budget.
The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 stipulates that a president can withhold such funding for up to 45 days, only after “a special message to Congress identifying the amount of the proposed rescission; the reasons for it; and the budgetary, economic and programmatic effects of the rescission”. Withholding beyond that time frame would require an act of Congress.
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The vile, demonic Botoxian needs to be sent back to its Big Daddy in hell...permanently.
China Nan
Southern China Post.
There is a reliable source.
Be sure and post something from a Tehran Paper as well.
How? She shut down congress until May...
...game, set, match!
Worried about WGO, but not American small business.
Commies hate small business owners and the Rats are taking this opportunity to run them out of business . . . evil.
There was just a report on TV that the WHO funding isn’t explicit in the law, but rather comes from a generic health fund that is spent at the President’s discretion. Guess we may soon see...
IMPEACH!!
She needs to get back to Washington and pass a bill. Of course it will never pass.
Well if we didn’t suspect the WHO is a tool of Leftists we know it is now.
Wonder what the Democrats have to do and how long it will take for Americans to realize the Democrats are in rebellion with the aim of destroying the Constitution and our nation?
PDJT's response to the first breach by the CCP and WHO is firmly established by international law as a legitimate response.
Democrats: always willing to do the bidding of Beijing.
the south china morning post. I’m sick of the rats automatically siding with our enemies.
Southern China Post.
There is a reliable source.
Be sure and post something from a Tehran Paper as well.
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You believe Pelosi will support Trump over the WHO funding suspension?
It’s harder to tell when the Republicans helped them put an ineligible usurper in office and run their own ineligible candidates.
She probably won’t mount a serious challenge until the shutdown ends.
But PDJT can in this context legitimately adjourn Congress and proceed with recess appointments.
Expect a figurative representation all the excrement in Nan's SF to hit the media fan when PDJT does that.
Go away Nancy your Depends are Full
OK Nancy, go stick your head in your freezer.
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