President Trump is rolling back Biden healthcare policies, such as expansions to the Affordable Care Act – a move Democrats described as an "attack" on the federal program.
Public health experts warn that pulling out of WHO, which Trump attacked for its response to COVID-19, will leave Americans more vulnerable to health threats.
Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.
As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."
President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.
President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among them were motions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The withdrawal means the WHO will lose both a significant percentage of its funding but also the expertise of U.S. health professionals.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
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
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 World Health Organization called on the US to reconsider a decision to leave the agency, suggesting the move could undermine global health security.