President Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. will stop funding the World Health Organization and plans on conducting a review to "assess the WHO's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus."
Last week, Trump threatened to freeze funding to the United Nation's health agency, accusing WHO officials of responding slowly to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. He has also slammed the WHO for praising China's transparency on how it was handling its coronavirus outbreak and denounced the agency's Jan. 14 tweet stating that a preliminary investigation by Chinese officials found zero evidence of human-to-human transmission.
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