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.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

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.

As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organi

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

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.

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.”

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.