President Trump said Saturday that he is considering the possibility of rejoining the World Health Organization, days after signing an executive order withdrawing the United States from the international group.
“Maybe we'll consider doing it again, I don't know, but they need to sort it out a little bit,” the president said at a rally at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
President Trump threw out the idea, lamenting that the United States is paying more than its fair share to the 194-nation group. That compares with the $500 million the United States is offering. China said it paid only $39 million despite having a larger population of 1.4 billion. .
The president has long divided the organization over its “failure to introduce urgently needed reforms” and has described U.S. financial contributions as “onerous.”
In the final year of his first administration, President Trump began taking steps to separate the United States from the WHO. But after losing the election to Joe Biden, the Democratic president ultimately blocked the effort on his first day in office.
Trump also warned the audience that he would work with Congress to pass legislation that would not only cut taxes but also fulfill a campaign promise he first made in June to block taxes on workers' tips.
“Your chips are 100% yours, isn't that nice?” he marveled.
He also announced that the agency is considering halting the hiring of more than 80,000 IRS employees. Many of its employees were paid with $72 billion provided to federal agencies under the Inflation Control Act.
“They hired or tried to hire 88,000 workers to come after you, and we're making plans to fire them all or move them to the border,” he said. said.
Stopping in Las Vegas at the end of a frenetic inaugural week, the president defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada by 46,000 votes, on track to become the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state in decades. He passionately told his supporters that they had supported him.
“I'm just here to thank the people of Nevada for making this such a huge victory,” he said.
President Trump also shared a number of executive actions he signed to undo the Biden administration's efforts, while fulfilling campaign promises such as closing the border and restoring law and order.
“This week alone, we have taken nearly 350 executive actions to reverse the horrific failures and betrayals inherited from groups that don't know what they're doing,” Trump said.
“Our message couldn't be clearer: America's decline is over.”
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