WASHINGTON, April 27 -- U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs launched an inquiry into the Trump administration's decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), committee chairman Eliot Engel said on Monday.
In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Democratic congressman decried the decision to halt funding as a political distraction from the administration's response to the COVID-19 and demanded that the State Department produce records and information dealing with the decision.
"President Trump's decision to halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the midst of a global pandemic is counterproductive and puts lives at risk," Engel wrote in the letter.
Engel said that though the WHO was imperfect, the organization had "played an essential role coordinating among governments around the world, and was quick to declare the spread of COVID-19 a health emergency and a pandemic."
The senior congressman pointed out that the WHO had made invaluable efforts to help slow the spread and flatten the curve of the pandemic.
"Attacking the WHO, rather than the COVID-19 outbreak, will only worsen an already dire situation by undermining one of our key tools to fight the spreading disease," said Engel.
The chairman set a deadline of May 4 for the State Department to hand over documents regarding the decision to withhold funding from the WHO.
As the death toll from COVID-19 is increasing across the United States, the White House has tried to deflect criticisms about its earlier blunders by blaming others.
Claiming the WHO failed to share information in a "timely and transparent fashion," President Donald Trump earlier this month decided to halt his nation's funding to the agency, a move that has drawn opposition at home and abroad.
As of Monday afternoon, the United States reported more than 980,000 COVID-19 cases with over 55,000 deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
雅思听力考点场景拓展 — 银行场景
2010年5月8日雅思考试预测
4月17日雅思考试预测
叶毅斌10.31雅思A类大作文具体题目预测
北雅刘薇老师11月口语预测
2010年5月15日雅思考试预测
叶毅斌11.14/19/雅思A类写作预测
杨凡:11月雅思写作预测
叶毅斌11.14/19/21,雅思口语权威预测
无忧:12月19日海游雅思预测
赵雪:11月雅思听力预测
Pat的十一月写作预测
颜炜:11月雅思写作趋势预测
12年19日雅思口语预测
4月10日雅思口语预测
9月11、18、25包括10月雅思口语新题预测
雅思趋势预测及备考指导—学术类大小作文
9月11日雅思口语预测
雅思口语趋势预测及备考指导
备考:9月16日雅思考试口语
01月雅思作文试题预测
李一萌11-12月雅思口语终极预测
Pat的11月口语预测
12月19日;1月9/14/23/30,2-5月A/G类雅思全面权威预测
叶毅斌11.7/14/19/21,G类大小作文预测
海游:11月14日雅思考试预测
April:10.31雅思口语预测
郑庆利:12月19日雅思写作预测(A类)
雅思预测:9月4日3G雅思全方位预测
12月5日雅思考试预测
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |