Trump announced the US would withdraw from the World Health Organization in January 2023 in one of his final acts as President, but has now hinted at a U-turn

President Donald Trump discussed his thoughts on the World Health Organization, expanding on some of the reasons he withdrew from the agency.

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.

The US is scheduled to leave the WHO on January 22, 2026. President Donald Trump announced the move on January 20, after he was sworn in for a second term in the White House.

In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump has moved to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, joining only Soviet satellite states in ever attempting to do so,

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

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

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 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 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.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”