I think we may hear more imminently from the President of the United States on this issue, and I'm not at liberty to disclose exactly....
I now have over 1,000 signatures from leading public health people in the United States, urging Congress to block the withdrawal. I do believe it would be the most ruinous decision of a president in modern history to simply turn our back on the World Health Organization. I never thought I would see that in my country. I think it would weaken the global order. It would weaken public health, and I think it would put the United States itself at a higher security risk.
To your second question—they're both fantastic questions—the WHO is an intergovernmental organization. It's often been called the world's health democracy, because it's one country, one vote at the World Health Assembly. To think that a private donor.... As much as I do admire Bill and Melinda Gates—and they do have their hearts in the right place and they're a wonderful foundation and wonderful human beings—we nonetheless can't let a private foundation that's unaccountable and non-transparent and has its own preferences to make decisions that could affect global health priorities. We do need countries to step up—