Questions remain and reactions from world leaders are coming in after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to remove the United States as a member state of the World Health Organization. We look at the impacts.
President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.
"It's a cataclysmic presidential decision," say experts, referring to President Trump's executive order to pull the country out of WHO
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.
As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."
The Geneva-based WHO plays a pivotal role in battling global health threats, focusing on infectious diseases as well as humanitarian crises and chronic
Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2020, Trump started the ball rolling toward extricating the U.S. from the United Nations agency, but President Joe Biden reversed course after taking office in 2021.
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 United States will exit 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.
Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.