“We paid $ 500 million a year and China paid $ 39 million a year despite a much larger population. Think it. China represents $ 39 million to have 1. 4 billion people, we pay $ 500 million that we have, nobody knows what we have, you know?
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“They offered me at $39 million, they said ‘We’ll let you back in for $39 million,’ they’re going to reduce it from [$500 million] to [$39 million], and I turned them down, because it became so popular I didn’t know if it would be well received even at [$39 million], but maybe we would consider doing it again, I don’t know, they have to clean it up a bit.”
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting in Beijing in 2020. (Naohiko Hatta/Pool Photo via AP, File)
An investigation of national contributions to NPR that revealed that the United States will pay around 10% of the WHO budget, while China will pay around 3%.
Trump withdrew the United States from the WHO from an executive order published hours after being sworn in last week. The president cited reasons such as the WHO’s “mishandling of the Covvi-19 pandemic,” the “lack of emergency reforms,” and the U. S. ‘s “unfairly expensive” bills Trump’s first term, in July 2020, took steps to withdraw the U. S. from the WHO, however, his successor, former President Joe Biden, despite the fact that everything restored the country’s participation in the Global Fitness Initiative.
Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO in an executive order issued hours after he was sworn into office. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo)
The president’s complaints about the U.S. paying too much to the WHO mirror his complaints about U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well. During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Trump said he was asking all NATO nations to contribute 5% of their gross domestic products to NATO defense spending.
NATO set a threshold of 2% that countries must pay in 2014, but, according to Trump, “most nations didn’t pay” until he began pushing for other countries to contribute more. Still, according to NATO’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte, countries like Spain, Italy and Canada have yet to even meet that 2% contribution.
Secretary General Mark Rutte is at a press conference at NATO headquarters on Dec. 4, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
Following Trump’s demands that NATO members spend 5% of their gross domestic product, he questioned whether the United States spent anything to protect us. “
“I’m not sure we spend anything, but in fact we help them,” Trump said from the Oval office.
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