On President Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order (EO) announcing that the United States is leaving the World Health Organization (WHO).
The withdrawal from the WHO is likely to negatively impact the organization, considering that the United States has been its largest financial contributor. In the year 2022-2023, the United States donated a whopping $1.28 billion to the WHO’s budget. Trump’s move may help to undermine the WHO’s radical abortion agenda by keeping U.S. dollars away from the globalist organization, which openly promotes abortion internationally, and works to bring the legalized killing of preborn children to low-income nations.
Although the World Health Organization purports to “promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable,” it has pushed for dangerous, radical abortion policies, including “DIY” (or “self-managed”) abortion, and the global removal of all restrictions on abortion.
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However, the stated reasons for the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the WHO are the organization’s purported “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the failure of the organization to adopt necessary reforms and “demonstrate independence from inappropriate political influence,” and the WHO’s continuous demands for “unfair and onerous payments” from the United States. The EO states:
Section 1. Purpose. The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states. 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.
This Executive Order revokes the Biden Administration’s Presidential Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2021, which retracted the previous Trump Administration’s attempt to withdraw from the WHO.
Most notably, the Executive Order demands that the WHO “Take appropriate measures, with all practicable speed to: ‘Pause the future transfer of any United States Government funds, support, or resources to the WHO.'”
In response to the news, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic stated, “The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the organization… We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the United States of America and WHO.”
