White House Quietly Walks Back Funding Cuts to World Trade Organization

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The Trump Administration has quietly stepped back from slashing aid for the WTO amid concerns from US lawmakers that defunding the WTO could allow China to dominate it.

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00:00The White House has quietly removed the World Trade Organization from a list of targets

00:05for proposed funding cuts.

00:07On Friday, the Trump administration announced plans to slash foreign aid by a total of 4.9

00:12billion U.S. dollars.

00:14Though WTO appeared on an earlier version of the list circulated by U.S. officials,

00:19however it disappeared from a later version of the list amid concerns from lawmakers,

00:24including fears that it could allow China to dominate the organization.

00:28Democrats say all of the proposed cuts are unconstitutional as the funding was authorized

00:33by Congress.

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