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No funds are authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for assessed or voluntary contributions of the United States to the United Nations or any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body thereof, except that funds may be appropriated to facilitate withdrawal of United States personnel and equipment.
Trump has long been critical of the United Nations’ health agency, and his administration formally began a withdrawal from the WHO in July 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to spread.
Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization is an executive order signed by United States president Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, during the first day of his second presidential term. The order directed the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization.
Withdrawal is a grievous wound to world health, but a still deeper wound to the US," Lawrence Gostin, a global public health expert and Georgetown University professor said.
Some right-wing organizations in the United States have supported US withdrawal from the UN, including the John Birch Society and Constitution Party. [4]Bills to end US membership in the UN have been introduced in the United States House of Representatives, for example the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009 (introduced as H.R. 1146 on February 24, 2009, by Republican Ron Paul) and ...
In his order, Trump said he notified the UN about the proposed withdrawal in 2020 "due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global ...
The US withdrawal is the “most momentous” of all the executive orders signed Monday, said Lawrence Gostin, a public health law professor at Georgetown University, warning it “could be sowing ...
The 2007 bill was authored by U.S. Representative Ron Paul, Republican of the 14th district of Texas, to effect U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations.It would repeal various laws pertaining to the UN, terminate authorization for funds to be spent on the UN, terminate UN presence on U.S. property, and withdraw diplomatic immunity for UN employees. [2]