Important Takeaways:

• Among the slew of executive orders signed after reaching the White House Monday night, President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), saying the far-reaching pandemic monitoring organization had “ripped off” the U.S.
• The U.S. is the largest funder of the WHO, which monitors disease outbreaks around the world. The U.S. also majorly contributes to the WHO’s work — including collaborations with the CDC and NIH on issues like cancer prevention and global health security.
• Trump’s executive order is an attempt to finish what he started in his last presidency and is all but guaranteed to succeed this time around. Trump removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but withdrawal requires one year of advance notice. Biden took office six months later and revoked Trump’s action before it ever took effect.
• “Everybody rips off the United States and that’s it — it’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said.
• The text of the executive order describes an “unfair” demand of “onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments.”
• “China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO,” the executive order said.

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