US Exits WHO: The United States officially announced that it has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organisation (WHO). This move ends Washington’s membership in the global health body.
Meanwhile, according to the Trump administration, the move fulfills a promise made on the president’s first day in office.
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In a joint statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that the withdrawal was carried out through an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump and was aimed at freeing the United States from what they described as the organisation’s constraints.
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“Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), freeing itself from its constraints, as President Trump promised on his first day in office by signing E.O. 14155,” the statement said. “This action responds to the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”
