US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

The US president said funding would be on hold for 60 to 90 days pending a review of the WHO’s warnings about the coronavirus and China. He accused the global body of severely mismanaging and covering up the threat of the virus at the initial stage of the outbreak.

US funding to the UN agency annually is between $400 million to $500 million.

“Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China’s lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death,” Trump said.

The US President said Tuesday if the WHO had acted appropriately, he could have instituted a travel ban on people coming from China sooner. He said the WHO made a “dangerous and costly” decision to oppose travel restrictions from China.

The move to freeze the funding is the latest in a series of the Trump administration’s actions against international multilateral organizations. Prior to the pandemic, the administration’s fiscal year 2021 proposal laid out a $65 million cut to the World Health Organization which is a more than 50% decrease over 2020.