1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Agency Discretion to Manage Appropriated Funds: The WHO Funding Announcement May 15, 2020 On April 14, 2020, President Donald J. Trump announced that his Administration would “halt” funding to the World H
2、ealth Organization (WHO) while it investigates the WHOs Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) response effort. This “investigation,” the President stated, may last “60 to 90 days.” As observed in CRS Insight IN11369, U.S. Funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), by Luisa Blanchfield and Tiaji S
3、alaam-Blyther, Congress has not appropriated funds specifically for the WHO in recent appropriations acts. Instead, Congress has appropriated funds for executive branch agencies to address topics such as international disaster and famine assistance, and the recipient agency may have opted to obligat
4、e such funds for projects that involved the WHO. It is too early to tell how the Trump Administrations announcement might affect agency action, if at all. It is possible to construe the Administrations statements as signaling that agencies might proceed with obligating funds by working with “differe
