Rep. Chris Smith will hold a hearing on a 'pandemic treaty' push by the Biden White House that 'could cede American sovereignty' to the World Health Organization.
W.H.O. adviser Jamie Metzl joined Fox & Friends Weekend to discuss why he thinks there is a real possibility the pandemic began with an accidental lab leak.– Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.
Smith said top officials from the Biden administration will be invited to testify, but it's not yet clear who those officials will be. "Under absolutely no circumstances should the Biden administrationto the World Health Organization and allow the voice of the American people and consent of the governed to be subjugated to dictates of an agenda-driven global administrative bureaucracy," Smith said.
Rep. Chris Smith announced Monday he would chair a hearing on the Biden administration's"push to enter an international pandemic treaty that could cede American sovereignty to the World Health Organization.
Smith said the hearing will help bring greater public scrutiny and"much-needed transparency" to the administration's"aggressive efforts to enter this new accord with the WHO, which took disastrous misstepsThe WHO has had a zero-draft treaty in the works for at least a year. Amendments will be considered in an upcoming meeting in July. A vote to adopt a final version of the treaty will likely take place in 2024.
Smith says the zero-draft WHO pandemic treaty starts off with"very harsh criticism of the United States and the international community by calling it a ‘catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity in response to the coronavirus disease pandemic.
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