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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives launched today an investigation into the decision of President Donald Trump's administration to cut funding to the World Health Organization amid a crisis of the outbreak of the Corona Virus Emerging Virus as the benefit of 19.
According to the American newspaper "The Hill", Elliott Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, asked, in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to provide information about the Trump administration's decision regarding the financing of the World Health Organization, at the end of May 4.
The newspaper pointed out that Engel demanded in his letter the State Department to provide any records of communication between the World Health Organization and the White House and any other US agencies involved in the matter regarding the discussion of stopping the financing of the international organization in addition to the legal argument on which the Trump administration relied to take this decision.
Engel said that cutting off funding for the first International Health Organization, which stands at the forefront of the world's response to Covid 19, will backfire and endanger lives, adding that attacking the World Health Organization instead of responding to the outbreak of the Corona virus will lead to a serious worsening of the situation by undermining one of our tools The key to combating the spread of the epidemic. ”
Engel described the Trump administration's interpretation of its decision toward the organization as "insufficient", stressing the determination of the Foreign Affairs Committee to obtain information to understand the true reasons behind the move.
Trump announced on the 14th of this month, the suspension of US funding for the World Health Organization.