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U.S. withdraws from World Health Organization membership
U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders and pardons for January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night in the Oval Office withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“That's a big one,” Trump said just before signing the order. “So we paid $500 million to World Health when I was here, and I terminated it.”
“It seemed a little unfair to me,” Trump added.
But former President Biden reversed Trump's initial attempt to withdraw from WHO on his first day in office in 2021.
The executive order reportedly states that the U.S. notified WHO of its withdrawal in 2020 “due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic … and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”
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