Until recently, the United States was the biggest funder to the World Health Organization. Ten months after Trump announced the U.S. was withdrawing its membership, WHO just announced it must let go of 2,371 workers, about one-quarter of its workforce.
Trump estimates a cost of $300 million for the ballroom that will replace his unauthorized demolition of the White House’s East Wing.
That is more than the $218 million the United States paid in the two years of 2022 and 2023 as its assessed member contribution to WHO. In addition, the U.S. voluntarily gave $47 million to WHO’s emergency fund. Those two figures add up to $265 million. Total voluntary contributions from the U.S. in those two years amounted to $1.02 billion.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation chipped in another $826 million.
China’s voluntary contribution in those years was $41 million.
We now have sunk below even that paltry sum.
Sources:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-who-funds-the-world-health-organization/
https://www.statista.com/chart/33800/top-contributors-to-the-world-health-organization/
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