Chip Roy Backs Measure to Stop U.S. Government From Funding World Health Organization

Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, and other House Republicans support a measure that would prohibit the United States from funding the World Health Organization.

A copy of the measure was posted by the Washington ExaminerThe text of the measure says that “the United States may not provide any assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization.”

“Funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to the corrupt World Health Organization that serves the Chinese Communist Party is a slap in the face to hardworking American families struggling under record high inflation, and to all those whose lives and livelihoods were ruined and destroyed by the COVID pandemic,” Roy stated that, according to a Press release.

Some Americans might rejoice at the possibility of cutting U.S. funding for the WHO. However, this proposal is unlikely to become law because Democrats control the Senate as well as the White House. Roy has Put forward The measure was also used in the past.

“The WHO not only regularly promotes abortion and radical gender ideology but also praised China for their ‘leadership’ at the beginning of COVID-19 and has done nothing to hold the CCP accountable for the spread of COVID-19. It is far past time for Congress to use its power of the purse to cut off US funding to this corrupt international body just like the Trump Administration did,” Roy stated this, according to the press release.

Roy joined Reps. Tom McClintock and Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Mary Miller in Illinois, Andrew Clyde from Georgia, Diana Harshbarger, of Tennessee, Matt Rosendale, of Montana, Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), Paul Gosar on Arizona, Dan Bishop on North Carolina, John Moolenaar off Michigan, Pat Fallon, Andy Biggs and Wesley Hunt in Texas in introducing the measure. In the press release, there are also listed “Huggins,” Louisiana, an apparent typo meant Rep. Clay Higgins.

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