The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organization – its withdrawal from the public health body will impede efforts to control the global spread of diseases and could pu

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

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

The Geneva-based WHO plays a pivotal role in battling global health threats, focusing on infectious diseases as well as humanitarian crises and chronic

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

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

Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2020, Trump started the ball rolling toward extricating the U.S. from the United Nations agency, but President Joe Biden reversed course after taking office in 2021.

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.

President Trump has signed an executive order​ beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

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.

The Late Night host, taking a night off from his more in-depth A Closer Look segment, still chimed in on on all the inauguration night hoopla and assorted other Trump-related day one activities during his show-opening monologue, including Trump unveiling the new presidential portrait and signing over 100 controversial executive orders.