World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
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.
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 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.
Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, World Health Organization chief says
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 Donald Trump of the United States on Saturday said he may consider rejoining the World Health Organization, WHO. Trump stated this at a rally in Las Vegas days after he ordered a U.S. exit from the global health agency over what he described as a mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
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.
President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.