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.

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

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

The interim director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management responds to a recent critical op-ed published in STAT.

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.

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

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.

Nir Barka also said that former U.S. President Joe Biden "restrained Israel," and expressed optimism about support from President Donald Trump.

President Trump's decision to start withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization puts global health programs in a serious financial squeeze just as disease threats are multiplying. Why it matters: Trump's reluctance to pay the freight for the global health partnership could come back to bite him if surveillance efforts break down and a regional outbreak turns into another pandemic.

The majority of those backing the US staying in the WHO are Democrats. Among the Democrats surveyed, 77% are in favor of remaining in the international body, with only 9% opposing it. In contrast, the Republicans have a different stance, with 58% supporting Trump’s decision and 28% opposing it.