The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), wrote on Tuesday President Donald Trump's decision to slap higher tariffs on South Korea was the result of the country's targeting of American companies such as Coupang.

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South Africa on Tuesday confirmed that it will withdraw from the Group of 20 (G20) economic forum for the year 2026, because the United States holds the rotating presidency for the year, and relations between Johannesburg and President Donald Trump have been tense.

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In his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order initiating the United States withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the United Nation’s agency charged with supporting global health. Last week, he finalized that action, ending all funding, personnel support, and formal engagements.  

Trump’s action is hardly precipitous. In fact, when he indicated his desire to disengage from the WHO in 2020, he noted that his decision was largely driven by the organization’s profoundly poor performance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent refusals to reform itself.

Based on the record, the president is making the right decision.  

Amidst the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, WHO failed in its crucial mission. Following a comprehensive two-year investigation into the government’s response to the pandemic, including sworn testimony, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded:

While WHO is supposed to support the entire world, during COVID-19 pandemic, it appeared to protect its relationship with the CCP (the Chinese Communist Party). The WHO was misinformed, denied access to China, and was used as cover for CCP’s reckless actions. At a time when the globe was turning to the WHO for leadership and advice, the WHO’s actions showed that it did not support all its members equally. What was seen was an organization that, rather than serving all humankind, became beholden to and entrapped in politics.

The Record. Look at the record. On Jan. 14, 2020, for example, WHO told the world that COVID-19 was “not transmissible” from human to human. WHO’s communication of this false information was based on what Communist Chinese officials were telling them, and they naively trusted them. In fact, one of the outstanding features of this deadly pathogen was its impressive contagiousness. The novel coronavirus had been circulating and infecting persons in China and elsewhere, as early as the Fall of 2019. It had been spreading rapidly, and COVID-19 antibodies even showed up in blood samples in Veneto, Italy, as early as September 3, 2019!

On Dec. 31, 2019, as the subcommittee reported, WHO ignored warnings from Taiwan about strange “pneumonia” cases showing up in Wuhan Province, China. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communists were underreporting cases and deaths, crushing internal dissent, and threatening Chinese medical professionals and journalists who deviated from the official line on the novel coronavirus. The Communist regime, however, insisted on maintaining normal air travel from China to other parts of the world, including the United States.

The Human Cost. In the face of a global health threat, the WHO is supposed to issue a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). Such a declaration is the equivalent of a “red alert,” putting nations on notice and enabling them to prepare individually and collectively to take measures to control the spread of a dangerous disease.

Our Central Intelligence Agency and German intelligence both found that the Chinese Communists threatened WHO officials if they declared a global emergency, saying that they would end China’s role in any international effort to combat the novel coronavirus. So, as the subcommittee further reported, WHO delayed and did not declare a global emergency until Jan. 30, 2020: “By the time the WHO declared COVID-19 a PHIEC on January 30, 2020, the disease infected almost 10,000 and killed almost 1000 people in 19 different countries. It was reported that the delay in PHEIC declaration was a result of intense pressure from the CCP.”    

Even so, WHO, while praising Communist China’s efforts to combat the coronavirus at home, opposed travel restrictions to contain the contagion. Congressional investigators noted that between Dec. 31, 2019, and Jan. 31, 2020 , there were 430,000 passengers who flew from China to the United States.

On Jan. 31, 2020, Trump imposed a travel ban on China. While Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress that Trump’s decisive action undoubtedly saved American lives, Trump’s critics, of course, accused him of “racism”.  

A Joke. It got worse. In January 2021, WHO assembled a team of 17 international experts to visit Wuhan, China, and inquire into the then mysterious origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Communists denied participation of any American scientists, except Dr. Peter Daszak, a friendly collaborator with the Wuhan Institute Virology on risky coronavirus research funded by American taxpayers.

China’s scientists, incidentally, comprised roughly half of the team of international investigators. A “balanced” approach.    

The team was denied access to the raw data, interviews with personnel were limited, and so was access to lab facilities. As the subcommittee also reported: “A significant restriction was the CCP’s complete control over every single aspect of the investigation team’s itinerary and access to information. Upon arriving in Wuhan, the WHO team quarantined for two weeks in hotel rooms and were further restricted to certain areas of the hotel after quarantining. The investigators were restricted from dining with their Chinese counterparts, a seemingly insignificant detail, yet denied the WHO team the opportunity to engage in informal, human-to-human, conversation that can provide invaluable information.”

This entire process was a joke. While the WHO report entertained various scenarios as to the origin of the deadly coronavirus- transmission from animal to human, through an unidentified intermediate animal host or food products–the hypothesis of a laboratory origin was dismissed as “extremely unlikely”. In short, the WHO report mirrored the official, pre-determined Chinese Communist Party line.  

Compared to the United States China’s financial contribution to the WHO is a mere pittance. Among member nation states, the U.S. has been the most generous funder of the WHO, with annual American taxpayer subsidies running between $110 to $123 million over the period 2014 to 2023. But the organization is also funded by voluntary contributions, from, for example, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  

Global elites are, of course, a dependable source of “moral” support.

WHO officials are doubtless overjoyed that the State of California will join the agency’s international health network, following  America’s departure. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement while attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.   

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the president’s order, is tasked with identifying responsible international partners to join in a cooperative effort to protect global health.

Given the WHO’s multiple failures during the COVID-19 crisis, the time is ripe for a new international effort to respond to pandemics more effectively. In the United Kingdom, for example, British conservatives have already launched “Action on World Health,” an agenda to reform or replace the WHO.

Our friends and allies overseas know, from bitter experience, that together we can and must do better.   

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President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan met with Minneapolis Gov. Tim Walz Tuesday, just one day after Walz accused federal immigration agents of carrying out an “assault on our state.”  

Despite his criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations, Walz spoke with Homan on Tuesday after Trump deployed the border czar to Minneapolis to take over the federal enforcement operation there.  

“Governor Walz met with Tom Homan this morning and reiterated Minnesota’s priorities: impartial investigations into the Minneapolis shootings involving federal agents, a swift, significant reduction in the number of federal forces in Minnesota, and an end to the campaign of retribution against Minnesota,” Walz’s office said in a statement.  

Walz and Homan have “agreed on the need for an ongoing dialogue and will continue working toward those goals,” Walz’s office added, noting that governor found similar agreement with Trump during their call Monday.  

“The Governor tasked the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as the primary liaison to Homan to ensure these goals are met,” the office added.  

Minneapolis has become a flashpoint for the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations following the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 that killed 37-year-old Renee Good, and the Border Patrol-involved shooting Saturday that killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti.  

In his Monday announcement that Homan was coming to Minnesota, Trump noted that Homan would “report directly” to him. That followed reports that Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino would be departing Minnesota. 

Homan served as acting director of ICE during Trump’s first term.

Homan’s border security career began in the 1980s, when he joined Border Patrol before going on to serve in ICE. At Trump’s request, Homan returned to Washington in 2025 to serve as Trump’s border czar.  

This is a developing story and will be updated.  

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