By withdrawing from the World Health Organization and overhauling aid, Trump's new executive orders endanger Americans and the globe, researchers warn. The move also cedes U.S. power to other nations.
Trump is pulling the U.S. back from international organizations. But on health care especially, Americans have a lot to lose — including, even, their lives.
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.
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.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would begin the process of removing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Here's why.
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.”
Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
On his first day in office, a resurgent Donald Trump signed a raft of executive orders that will dramatically alter the global landscape, from the Atlantic to Latin America, from Africa to Asia.In his seminal poem,
President Trump said Saturday he was weighing possibly rejoining the World Health Organization just days after signing an executive order withdrawing the United States from the international group.
A Post analysis identified at least two dozen presidential directives with some text that closely resembled the language or policy of Project 2025.