Process for U.S. to Leave World Health Organization Concludes Year After Trump Signs Exit

America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to formally conclude on Thursday, a year after the U.S. expressed its intent to depart the United Nations agency and a year and two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process.

President Trump began the withdrawal process on the first day of his second term in office, signing the executive order alongside a similar decree exiting the Paris climate agreement. Trump had initially withdrawn from the W.H.O. during his first term in office, but former President Joe Biden chose to re-enter the organization, costing America tens of millions of dollars.

The W.H.O.’s leader, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has spent much of the past year warning that the