After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three administration officials briefed on the proposal.

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump admin is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the U.S. once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three officials briefed on the proposal.

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