Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.
WASHINGTON — President Trump began his second term Monday with a sweeping order aimed at reversing dozens of former President Biden’s top priorities, from regulations aimed at lowering health care costs, to coronavirus outreach, Affordable Care Act expansions, and protections against gender-based discrimination.
One of the first actions President Donald Trump took after being inaugurated Monday was to sign an executive order to start the process of removing the United States from the World Health Organization.
In 2020, during the pandemic, Trump officials moved to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization. President Joe Biden reversed the decision, but Trump’s team is expected to do it again.
The US is the largest financial contributor to the WHO, this withdrawal could jeopardise vital health programs globally.
Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, unleashing unprecedented executive orders and daring anyone to stop him.
He could turn his rash action into a negotiation that might strengthen global health.
On his first day back at the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), a decision that has far-reaching implications for the health of people in the U.S. and around the world.
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President Trump is rolling back Biden healthcare policies, such as expansions to the Affordable Care Act – a move Democrats described as an "attack" on the federal program.
When Trump’s move to leave WHO takes effect in a year, it may gut funding for global public health and limit U.S. access to crucial data, experts warn.
In a flurry of Executive Orders rivaled perhaps only by the snow whipping around here in the south, Donald Trump spent much of his day making the ordinary look pretty extraordinary, sitting behind the Oval Office desk,
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