Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) and halting future U.S. funding to the United Nations organization.
“In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” the Trump executive order stated.
Trump initiated his first withdrawal process from the WHO during his first term in 2020. President Joe Biden reversed the decision upon taking office in 2021.
The latest order states that the Trump administration will request to the United Nations that the presidential letter that retracted the 2020 withdrawal notification be revoked.