President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.
Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.
The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
The World Health Organization called on the US to reconsider a decision to leave the agency, suggesting the move could undermine global health security.
President Trump has signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. It was among dozens of executive actions he signed after being sworn in Monday for a second term,
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
The United States has plans to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency announced Tuesday, right after President Donald Trump signed an executive order formalizing the decision.
President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.
The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health body will impede efforts to control the global spread of diseases and could pu
President Donald Trump used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health