ordered that the United States take steps to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Washington’s more than 70-year membership in the WHO nearly ended in Trump’s first term in office ...

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises.

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

The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the WHO, and the pact to tax large multinationals adds to the president’s expansionist rhetoric and his conviction that ‘everybody needs’ the United States

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WHO, the United Nations health ... event in Washington, DC, on Monday. - Matt Rourke/AP Trump first tried to exit WHO during his first term in 2020, accusing the organization of “severely ...

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

The finding is not the result of any new intelligence. It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA.

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.