President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from WHO, complaining that the agency has unfairly demanded too much in funding.
“Ooh, that’s a big one,” Trump said in the Oval Office as an aide handed him the executive order — one of a handful he signed Monday after being inaugurated for his second term.
The order revoked a letter that Joe Biden sent WHO at the start of his presidency in 2021 reversing Trump’s announcement in July 2020 that the U.S. would withdraw its support.
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