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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., led nan full Republican Senate convention successful calling connected President Biden to cull agreements that would grow nan authority of nan World Health Organization (WHO) successful nan lawsuit of a world pandemic.
"We powerfully impulse you not to subordinate immoderate pandemic related treaty, convention, aliases statement being considered" astatine nan 77th World Health Assembly, sounds a missive sent to Biden by Johnson and each 48 different Republican senators.
The Republican senators stressed that immoderate specified statement would beryllium considered a treaty, which they noted requires "the concurrence of two-thirds of nan Senate nether Article I Section 2 of nan Constitution."
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Sen. Ron Johnson led each GOP senators successful a missive to Biden, calling connected him not to support agreements to grow WHO authority. (Getty Images)
The World Health Assembly (WHA) will return spot from May 27 to June 1, and world agreements are expected to beryllium considered.
The WHA is nan WHO's decision-making body, which meets yearly, truthful it tin laic retired its goals and trade policies betwixt nan 194 personnel states.
The senators emphasized nan U.S. "cannot spend to disregard this latest WHO inability to execute its astir basal usability and must insist connected broad WHO reforms earlier moreover considering amendments to nan International Health Regulations (IHR) aliases immoderate caller pandemic related pact that would summation WHO authority."
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Johnson's missive was signed by nan full conference, including nan party's leaders, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Whip John Thune, and convention Chairman John Barrasso. (Getty Images)
The Republicans claimed that nan latest draught of nan caller pandemic consequence pact is "dead connected arrival."
"Instead of addressing nan WHO's well-documented shortcomings, nan pact focuses connected mandated assets and exertion transfers, shredding intelligence spot rights, infringing [on] free speech, and supercharging nan WHO," they wrote.
They besides claimed specified agreements disregard that nan origin of nan COVID-19 virus still isn't clear, "because Beijing continues to artifact a morganatic independent investigation."
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Biden has expressed support for nan conception of a world agreement. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Biden and his management person expressed support for nan conception of a world statement betwixt countries to much efficaciously combat early pandemics.
Johnson and nan different Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, Republican convention Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Steve Daines of Montana, said immoderate imaginable support from nan Biden management for nan world agreements would beryllium "unacceptable."
The White House and WHO did not instantly supply remark to Fox News Digital.
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Johnson has pressed for much investigation of COVID-19's origins and handling. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Johnson has been a fierce critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, nan erstwhile main aesculapian advisor to nan president, and of nan precautions put successful spot during nan COVID-19 pandemic successful nan U.S. The Wisconsin legislator has besides criticized nan pharmaceutical manufacture and vaccinations for nan microorganism that were mandated crossed nan country, arsenic good arsenic advocating for those who said they suffered injuries from nan shots.
Julia Johnson is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, starring sum of nan U.S. Senate. She was antecedently a authorities newsman astatine nan Washington Examiner.
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