The United States will withdraw from the globalist World Health Organization (WHO) on the first day of President-elect Donald Trump's new administration, a report on Sunday predicts.
The United States is the single largest donor to the WHO. Provides a home base for more than 8,000 career bureaucrats, approximately 16 percent of whom budget, In 2024, it reached USD 6.83 billion.
China has previously been criticized by conservative voices for being an extraordinary waste of U.S. taxpayer funds, and President Trump has accused China of being a slave to its own global ambitions.
According to of financial timesmembers of Trump's team told experts they intend to announce their withdrawal from the Geneva-based health agency on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
Withdrawal would mean the WHO would immediately lose its biggest source of funding. of F.T. The report notes that this withdrawal completes a process that Trump began during his last presidential term.
In 2020, in response to the spread of the new coronavirus, President Trump accused the WHO of being under Chinese control and began the process of withdrawing from the organization. But the process was never completed, and his successor, Joe Biden, resumed ties with the agency on his first day in office in 2021.
After starting the process immediately, some in the Trump campaign want to move even faster this time around, experts said.
Ashish Jha, Biden's former White House coronavirus response coordinator and dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, said the transition team was “symbolic” because of the “symbolism” of reversing Biden's own Inauguration Day move. He told the president he wanted him to leave on the first day. .
“There are many people who will be joining the regime's inner circle who don't trust the WHO and want to symbolically show that they're out from day one,” he said. spoke.
Trump's transition team did not comment directly on the possibility of withdrawal. A person familiar with the plans told the FT: We don't seem to care much what they say. ”
As Breitbart News reported, President Trump had previously criticized the WHO for siding with China despite harsh criticism of the coronavirus and its lack of transparency regarding its spread and origins.
“They seem very China-centric,” he said in April 2020. “That's a nice way to put it, but they seem to be very China-centric and always err on the side of China.”
