US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus during news conference at the State Department in Washington, May 6, 2020. (KEVIN LAMARQUE / POOL PHOTO VIA AP)

WASHINGTON - Five US Senate Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday seeking a review of US participation in the World Health Organization and other international institutions, after President Donald Trump's administration suspended US contributions to the UN health agency and accused it of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO on April 14 and said his administration would launch a review of the organization

Introduced by Chairman Jim Risch and four other Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the "Multilateral Aid Review Act of 2020" would establish a task force to assess how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions and serve American interests.

The bill requires a report on 38 institutions. Besides the WHO, they include the World Bank; Asian, African, Inter-American and North American Development Banks, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, several UN organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Trump suspended US contributions to the WHO on April 14 and said his administration would launch a review of the organization.

The United States is the WHO's biggest donor.

"As we have seen most recently with questionable actions taken by the World Health Organization in response to the spread of COVID-19, it is critically important to have accountability and oversight of our assistance," Risch said in a statement announcing the bill.

The pandemic has killed more than 70,000 Americans and ravaged the US economy.

Democrats have accused the Republican administration of seeking to distract from its own failings in addressing the health crisis. They said the WHO needs reforms, but said it should not be attacked in the middle of a pandemic.

Separately, a House of Representatives source said Representative Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, might subpoena Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for missing a May 4 deadline to provide information for an investigation of the decision to suspend aid to the WHO.

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Critics of the aid review bill said they were concerned the task force would be too partisan because Pompeo would be its chairman and members would be appointed by Trump.

The other sponsors of the bill were Senators David Perdue, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney and Todd Young.