Trump threatens to freeze funding for World Health Organization

US President Donald Trump has threatened to freeze American funding to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Trump’s conservatives allies have also increasingly criticised the who, accusing the organisation of relying on faulty data from China about the pandemic.

Republican senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump, vowed there would not be any funding for the WHO in the next senate appropriations bill.

Last week, republican senator Marco Rubio called for the resignation of who director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, saying he allowed Beijing to use the WHO to mislead the global community.