America First Legal is putting the Biden Administration on notice that any attempt to partner with the WHO to trample on our freedoms, any attempt to enact treaty obligations without first obtaining Senate treaty approval, any attempt to implement this agreement–bringing it into force domestically and surrendering our healthcare decision-making and national sovereignty to a foreign power–will compel America First Legal to bring all its resources to bear to prevent or disband all such lawless and intolerable conduct.
Focus of the Investigation
America First Legal (AFL) sent an official and powerful legal warning to the Biden Administration regarding its plans to potentially relinquish our sovereignty to the World Health Organization. At the time, those plans included amendments to the International Health Regulations–plans that have subsequently been postponed thanks to pushback by a coalition of countries across the world (but not the United States, of course).
As AFL pointed out in its letter, the American people have every reason to be concerned about any attempts by the Biden Administration to strengthen the WHO, because the Obama Administration had already taken steps to cede American sovereignty to the WHO. Indeed, on January 19, 2017–the day before President Trump took office–the Obama Administration finalized regulations that modified the definition of a “public health emergency” as it pertains to section 361 of the Public Health Service Act. Those amendments specifically included instances in which the WHO had declared a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.” Those regulations needlessly ceded American sovereignty over determinations of the existence of a public health emergency to judgments made by foreign bureaucrats.
