Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) cheered the advancement of an appropriations bill that defunds the World Health Organization (WHO) in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs appropriations bill.
Among other priorities, the bill prohibits funding for the WHO. It also includes a provision prohibiting the use of funds to support any international convention drafted by the WHO or United Nations without Senate ratification.
Hinson told Breitbart News that the WHO should not continue receiving taxpayer funding while it aids the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and helps its cover-up of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Today Republicans on the Appropriations Committee passed a bill to slash funding for the World Health Organization — a rogue international agency that takes its orders from the Chinese…