The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

Questions remain and reactions from world leaders are coming in after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to remove the United States as a member state of the World Health Organization. We look at the impacts.

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

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.

As one of the first actions of his second term, Trump signed an executive order detailing how the WHO withdrawal process might begin.

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

The Geneva-based WHO plays a pivotal role in battling global health threats, focusing on infectious diseases as well as humanitarian crises and chronic

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.

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among them were motions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO).

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. “Oooh that’s a big one,” Mr. Trump said at the Oval Office as he was handed the executive order to sign. He railed against the amount of money the U.S. pays into the organization, saying that China has more people but pays less.

The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.