All GOP senators press Biden not to support expanding WHO pandemic authority

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., led the full Republican Senate league successful calling connected President Biden to cull agreements that would grow the authorization of the World Health Organization (WHO) successful the lawsuit of a planetary pandemic.

"We powerfully impulse you not to articulation immoderate pandemic related treaty, convention, oregon statement being considered" astatine the 77th World Health Assembly, reads 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 the Senate nether Article I Section 2 of the Constitution."

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Sen. Ron Johnson led each GOP senators successful a missive to Biden, calling connected him not to enactment agreements to grow WHO authority.  (Getty Images)

The World Health Assembly (WHA) volition instrumentality spot from May 27 to June 1, and planetary agreements are expected to beryllium considered. 

The WHA is the WHO's decision-making body, which meets yearly, truthful it tin laic retired its goals and trade policies betwixt the 194 subordinate states. 

The senators emphasized the U.S. "cannot spend to disregard this latest WHO inability to execute its astir basal relation and indispensable importune connected broad WHO reforms earlier adjacent considering amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) oregon immoderate caller pandemic related pact that would summation WHO authority."

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Johnson's missive was signed by the full conference, including the party's leaders, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Whip John Thune, and league Chairman John Barrasso.  (Getty Images)

The Republicans claimed that the latest draught of the caller pandemic effect pact is "dead connected arrival."

"Instead of addressing the WHO's well-documented shortcomings, the pact focuses connected mandated assets and exertion transfers, shredding intelligence spot rights, infringing [on] escaped speech, and supercharging the WHO," they wrote. 

They besides claimed specified agreements disregard that the origin of the COVID-19 virus inactive isn't clear, "because Beijing continues to artifact a morganatic autarkic investigation."

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Biden has expressed enactment for the conception of a planetary agreement.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden and his medication person expressed enactment for the conception of a planetary statement betwixt countries to much efficaciously combat aboriginal pandemics. 

Johnson and the different Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, Republican league Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming and National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Steve Daines of Montana, said immoderate imaginable enactment from the Biden medication for the planetary 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 probe 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, the erstwhile main aesculapian advisor to the president, and of the precautions enactment successful spot during the COVID-19 pandemic successful the U.S. The Wisconsin legislator has besides criticized the pharmaceutical manufacture and vaccinations for the microorganism that were mandated crossed the country, arsenic good arsenic advocating for those who said they suffered injuries from the shots.