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https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/01/27/cdc-reportedly-ordered-to-stop-working-with-who-immediately/I hate his position on LGBTQIA+, especially Transgender, Climate Change, Mass Deportations, oil+gas etc. but then again I agree with many of his other moves, like this one:
Crucial Quote
Trump’s order directed the secretary of state and director of the Office of Management and Budget to pause the future transfer of funds and support to WHO and “recall and reassign” personnel working with WHO, but Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a University of Southern California public health expert who works with WHO, told the AP “people thought there would be a slow withdrawal,” adding: “This has really caught everyone with their pants down.”
Key Background
This is not the first time Trump tried to withdraw from WHO. In July 2020, he took steps to leave in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying at the time the organization “failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms” and that the U.S. would redirect “funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent global public health needs,” CNN reported.
The decision was met with criticism from Democrats and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would reverse the decision if elected, which his administration did.
The WHO is a United Nations agency that works on global efforts to expand health coverage and improve global health. Any country in the United Nations is able to join WHO by accepting its Constitution.
Contra
At a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump hinted that he would consider rejoining WHO, saying “maybe we would consider doing it again … maybe we would have to clean it up a bit,” Politico reported.
Tangent
The executive order starting the process to withdraw from WHO was one of many Trump signed on his first day back in office.
He also signed executive orders ordering mass deportations of anyone in the U.S. illegally, creating the Department of Government Efficiency, eliminating governmental programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and more.