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US withdraws from the World Health Organization
Reuters ^ | January 22, 20265:25 PM EST | Jennifer Rigby and Emma Farge

Posted on 01/23/2026 1:10:29 AM PST by Olog-hai

The United States officially left the World Health Organization on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the U.S. and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the U.N. health agency’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump gave notice that the U.S. would quit the organization on the first day of his presidency in 2025, via an executive order.

According to a press release from the U.S. Health and State Departments, the U.S. will only work with the WHO in a limited fashion in order to effectuate the withdrawal. […]

The U.S. departure has sparked a financial crisis that has seen the WHO cut its management team in half and scale back work, cutting budgets across the agency. Washington has traditionally been by far the U.N. health agency’s biggest financial backer, contributing around 18% of its overall funding. The WHO will also shed around a quarter of its staff by the middle of this year. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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KEYWORDS: communism; un; untiednations; who; winning

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1 posted on 01/23/2026 1:10:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

(US withdraws from the World Health Organization)

WHO?


2 posted on 01/23/2026 1:14:45 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Olog-hai
"...The U.S. departure has sparked a financial crisis that has seen the WHO cut its management team in half and scale back work, cutting budgets across the agency. Washington has traditionally been by far the U.N. health agency’s biggest financial backer..."

I voted for that!!!!! 😁

3 posted on 01/23/2026 1:49:41 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Olog-hai

This is a great prologue. Let’s leave the UN next.


4 posted on 01/23/2026 1:57:37 AM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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To: SMARTY

Did WHO every do anything beside have meetings and print stupid reports?


5 posted on 01/23/2026 1:59:11 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Alvin Diogenes

Absolutely. And then turn the building into a veterans home and hospital with a big statue of Patton in front.


6 posted on 01/23/2026 2:00:19 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Olog-hai

YES!!!!


7 posted on 01/23/2026 2:02:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I approve....we need fewer bureaucrats.


8 posted on 01/23/2026 2:09:42 AM PST by cherry
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To: HighSierra5

That works. But I don’t really care much what they do with the buildings, as long as we’re gone and they’re out of here!


9 posted on 01/23/2026 2:29:43 AM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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To: Olog-hai
One more example of the left taxing us to govern against us.


10 posted on 01/23/2026 2:34:40 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Olog-hai

18% from which, I expect, the rest is borrowed.


11 posted on 01/23/2026 2:42:33 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Olog-hai

Tedros is still the WHO’s executive. He is a non-doctor there in that role because of China. They lied about Covid early on in ways that benefitted China. In short, they stink.

I voted for this.


12 posted on 01/23/2026 2:48:52 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Olog-hai

Worried about hurting public health? Operation Covid, anyone?


13 posted on 01/23/2026 3:32:56 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Olog-hai

When was the last time the WHO could add something meaningful to their record of success?


14 posted on 01/23/2026 4:29:04 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Olog-hai

Sure it’s going to hurt us.

Yeah, right.

The globalists just don’t want to give up their control over us as part of their plan to destroy the US.


15 posted on 01/23/2026 4:39:29 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Olog-hai

Another promise made - promise kept....


16 posted on 01/23/2026 5:14:51 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: SaveFerris

Hu's on First

17 posted on 01/23/2026 5:35:44 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Olog-hai

So far so good. Now get out of the UN and NATO too, please.


18 posted on 01/23/2026 6:09:00 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: Olog-hai

How will it hurt public health? No more lockdowns? No more social distancing? No more experimental vax mandates? Sounds like winning


19 posted on 01/23/2026 8:06:20 AM PST by nhbob1
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