The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization via executive order Monday evening to the shock of some.

President Donald Trump 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 U.S. from the World Health

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.

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.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

The move to exit the WHO is historic and controversial. The U.S. has long been the most generous provider of humanitarian assistance.

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

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

President Donald Trump set a record on his first day back in office by issuing 26 executive orders, aiming to fulfill many of his campaign promises.