President Donald Trump’s decision to end U.S. membership in the World Health Organization revives a five-year-old grudge with the WHO’s leader. Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic,

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

President Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

In a day-one executive order, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization for a second time.