WHO funds are spent on a range of global health projects—programs to eradicate polio, rapidly respond to health emergencies, improve access to vaccines and medicines, develop pandemic prevention strategies, and more. The loss of US funding is likely to have a significant impact on at least some of these programs.

President Trump issued an executive order late Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the second time Trump has tried to pull the country out of the public health organization,

In one of his first presidential actions on Monday, President Trump issued an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. The executive order retracts a Presidential Letter by President Biden on Jan.