The United States should never participate in any treaty that undermines its sovereignty and freedom to act in a time of crisis. Yet that’s exactly what the Biden administration is attempting to do through a new agreement with the World Health Organization.
On Feb. 1, the World Health Organization (WHO), which fumbled its response to the Covid-19 pandemic with deadly consequences, released a “zero draft” of its “WHO CA+” treaty, a proposed agreement under consideration by the United States and other WHO member states that seeks to grow the international body’s power and influence in handling future pandemics. While the draft treaty doesn’t give the WHO direct authority over countries’ domestic pandemic policies, it contains numerous ruinous provisions that would push nations to adopt an authoritarian, globalist mindset for handling future disease outbreaks.
In response to the Biden administration’s consideration of the agreement, Senate Republicans, led by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, have introduced the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act. It would mandate that “any convention or agreement” produced by the WHO’s intergovernmental negotiating body be “deemed a treaty” and require approval from a supermajority of the U.S. Senate.
“The WHO, along with our federal health agencies, failed miserably in their response to Covid-19. This failure should not be rewarded with a new international treaty that would increase the WHO’s power at the expense of American sovereignty,” Johnson said.
The bill comes amid concerns that President Joe Biden will attempt to bypass the traditional Senate-approval
