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. …
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(US withdraws from the World Health Organization)
WHO?
I voted for that!!!!! 😁
This is a great prologue. Let’s leave the UN next.
Did WHO every do anything beside have meetings and print stupid reports?
Absolutely. And then turn the building into a veterans home and hospital with a big statue of Patton in front.
YES!!!!
I approve....we need fewer bureaucrats.
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!
18% from which, I expect, the rest is borrowed.
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.
Worried about hurting public health? Operation Covid, anyone?
When was the last time the WHO could add something meaningful to their record of success?
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.
Another promise made - promise kept....
Hu's on First
So far so good. Now get out of the UN and NATO too, please.
How will it hurt public health? No more lockdowns? No more social distancing? No more experimental vax mandates? Sounds like winning
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