The joint statement from Rubio and Kennedy, a vaccine sceptic, primarily blamed the WHO's failures during the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the withdrawal. Going forward, US engagement with the WHO will be limited strictly to effectuate our withdrawal and to safeguard the health and safety of the American people, Rubio and Kennedy said, noting that all US funding for the WHO had ceased.
I think it's very, very ironic that Gov. Newsom who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris, said Bessent.
Yes, Bernd Rauch, the vice-president in charge of basketball at the time, really wanted me. But I said that I needed to know whether Uli Hoeneß, as president, was also behind the move. Bernd rang him immediately and put the phone on speaker. But instead of Marko Pešić, Mr Hoeneß understood the name Micky Stevic, who was head of sport at 1860 at the time, and yelled into the phone that Bernd could forget it.