Trump open to considering re-entry into World Health Organization: 'They'd have to clean it up'

President Donald Trump said helium was unfastened to perchance rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO), conscionable days aft helium signed a Day One enforcement bid that withdrew the U.S. from the planetary group.

During a rally astatine Circa Resort & Casino successful Downtown Las Vegas, the president told those successful attendance that it was unfair a state similar China, with a colonisation overmuch greater than the U.S., was lone paying a fraction of what the U.S. was paying annually to the WHO.

"We paid $500 cardinal a twelvemonth and China paid $39 cardinal a twelvemonth contempt a overmuch larger population. Think of that. China's paying $39 cardinal to person 1.4 cardinal people, we wage $500 cardinal we person – nary 1 knows what the hellhole we have, does anyone know? We person truthful galore radical pouring successful we person nary idea," Trump told rally goers connected Saturday.

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"They offered maine astatine $39 million, they said 'We'll fto you backmost successful for $39 million,' they're going to trim it from [$500 million] to [$39 million], and I turned them down, due to the fact that it became truthful fashionable I didn't cognize if it would beryllium good received adjacent astatine [$39 million], but possibly we would see doing it again, I don’t know, they person to cleanable it up a bit."

WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier a gathering successful Beijing successful 2020. (Naohiko Hatta/Pool Photo via AP, File)

An investigation of nationalist contributions to the WHO from NPR recovered that the U.S. pays for astir 10% of the WHO's budget, portion China pays astir 3%.

Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO successful an enforcement bid issued hours aft helium was sworn into bureau past week. The president cited reasons specified arsenic WHO's "mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic," the "failure to follow urgently needed reforms," and "unfairly onerous payments" forced connected the U.S. During Trump's archetypal term, successful July 2020, helium took steps to retreat the U.S. from the WHO but his successor, erstwhile President Joe Biden, yet reinstated the nation's information successful the planetary wellness initiative.

Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO successful an enforcement bid issued hours aft helium was sworn into office. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo)

The president's complaints astir the U.S. paying excessively overmuch to the WHO reflector his complaints astir U.S. information successful the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), arsenic well. During the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland, past week, Trump said helium was asking each NATO nations to lend 5% of their gross home products to NATO defence spending.

NATO acceptable a threshold of 2% that countries indispensable wage successful 2014, but, according to Trump, "most nations didn't pay" until helium began pushing for different countries to lend more. Still, according to NATO’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte, countries similar Spain, Italy and Canada person yet to adjacent conscionable that 2% contribution. 

Secretary-General Mark Rutte holds a property league astatine NATO office connected Dec. 4, 2024, successful Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)

Following Trump's demands that NATO members walk 5% of their gross home product, helium questioned whether the U.S. should beryllium spending thing connected NATO astatine all, telling reporters from the Oval Office that the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but those aforesaid members are "not protecting us."

"I'm not definite we should beryllium spending anything, but we should surely beryllium helping them," Trump said from the Oval Office. 

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The White House declined to remark for purposes of this story.