Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in support of my amendment, which will prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from making any voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization failed the world and America with its response to COVID-19 and has continued to fail the world and the U.S. The WHO helped perpetuate the Chinese Government's wholly inaccurate claims and even praised their handling of the outbreak. The WHO Director-General applauded President Xi's very rare leadership and China's transparency. The WHO was complicit in its deception, willfully accepting what China had claimed and spread to the rest of the world instead of doing its job and verifying the claims that were made. Further, in 2021, the WHO dismissed the COVID lab leak theory as being ``extremely unlikely'' after a visit to China. The WHO even returned from that trip with the theory that the virus was transmitted to humans through frozen food, which was an absurd claim. Then, in 2022, 2 years after COVID, the WHO changed its tune and recommended more investigation into the lab leak theory, the same theory that it had so eagerly dismissed as a conspiracy theory because President Trump suspected what was going on back in 2020. It turns out President Trump was right to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization. In addition, the World Health Organization has allowed North Korea to sit on its executive board.…
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