NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 15, 2024
CONTACT:
Matthew Franklin, [email protected]
SOVEREIGNTY COALITION, INFLUENTIAL GROUPS CALL FOR CONGRESS TO SUPPORT HOUSE IN DEFUNDING THE W.H.O.
Prevent “Global Governance” Bid to Crush Our Sovereignty, Freedoms
WASHINGTON, D.C.— A group of patriotic public policy-minded leaders, organizations and influential individuals have called on congressional Republican leaders to insist in the course of ongoing negotiations to finalize the Fiscal Year 2024 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill on preserving critical provisions contained in the House version. Section 7048 (k) and (l) of H.R. 4665 would deny funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) and require that any further funding would be provided only if the Senate gave its advice and consent to the sorts of agreements that the WHO is stealthily negotiating.
The letter, with 58 signatures, was sponsored by the “Sovereignty Coalition” as part of its opposition to the Biden administration’s effort to surrender U.S. sovereignty, States’ rights, and Americans’ medical freedoms to the WHO’s unelected, unaccountable, and demonstrably malfeasant Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. That would be the effect of a package of amendments to the existing International Health Regulations and a new Pandemic Agreement, both of which are – according to the Congressional Research Service – treaties under international law and, as such, must be submitted to the Senate.[1]
The Biden administration, however, has evinced no willingness to allow the constitutional ratification process to apply to these treaties or, for that matter, to enable the American people and their elected representatives an opportunity to examine, let alone debate, their contents. For these reasons, the House-approved restrictions on funding for the World Health Organization are absolutely required.
The Sovereignty Coalition letter reads in part:
These agreements, separate and together, will negatively impact US sovereignty by removing decision-making over public health issues from our government (federal, state, and local) and giving that authority to the Director-General of the WHO. They also expand the definition of “public health” to include pandemics and any issue with the potential to affect global public health, including climate change, immigration, and gun violence, all guided by the policy of equity.
Both the Biden administration and the WHO refuse to characterize either of them as “treaties” to circumvent the U.S. ratification process. However, according to the Congressional Research Service, for purposes of international law, both are treaties.
If Congress does not act now to slow down the process and demand Senate action, the United States will be bound by these documents this year. Because of the time-sensitive nature of the process, we implore you to include these House-passed provisions (H.R. 4665 §7048 (k)(l)) in the final appropriations bill to protect the sovereignty and medical freedom of the United States and its citizens.
Americans who share the signatories’ determination to prevent the surrender of our sovereignty at the end of May, when the World Health Assembly is expected to approve both accords, are urged to sign the “American Sovereignty Declaration.” The Coalition also makes it easy for citizens to send an email to encourage their elected leaders to ensure that the United States not only refrains from underwriting the WHO but also withdraws from that organization altogether.
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CONTACTS:
To interview representatives of the Sovereignty Coalition, contact Matthew Franklin at [email protected].
[1] https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2022-06-22_IF12139_1b82a7b4554a5dfbbf8981b345ee175d0516c28d.pdf