KEY POINTS
- Bill Gates said the White House should not withhold funding for the World Health Organization during a global pandemic,.
- President Trump announced that the U.S. is suspending funding while it reviews the agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
- “Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds,” Gates said on Twitter early Wednesday.
Bill Gates
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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is defending the World Health Organization, blasting President Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding for the U.N. agency in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda, voiced support for the WHO in separate Twitter posts early Wednesday, a day after Trump announced that he is halting U.S. funding while the administration reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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