President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.
Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.
Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.
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.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”
As expected, President Donald Trump hit the ground running on Monday, signing scores of executive orders on various topics ranging from immigration to social issues. Among the policies implemented by Trump on his first day back in the White House were orders to withdraw the United States from two key international institutions.
Trump began his second term with a series of executive actions. The 47th US president ordered a crackdown on immigration and withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization.
D ONALD TRUMP has once again set his sights on the World Health Organisation ( WHO ). On January 20th America’s newly inaugurated president signed an executive order signalling that his country would withdraw from the UN agency. The order cites the WHO ’s mishandling of covid-19, failure to reform and lack of independence as reasons for withdrawal.
When Trump’s move to leave WHO takes effect in a year, it may gut funding for global public health and limit U.S. access to crucial data, experts warn.
After his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a host of executive orders, some with important implications for science
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