WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”
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.
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.
The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.
As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
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,
On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization. “Ooh, that’s a big one," he said as he was handed the document.
"It will exacerbate global health inequalities and put at risk advances made over decades," say experts. Among the measures that Donald Trump has taken right after assuming the presidency of the United States is the intention to make his country no longer a member of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Good riddance to the World Health Organization — more aptly called the Woke Health Oligarchy. On his first day, President Trump withdrew the United States from WHO, a necessary step in putting the health of Americans first.