Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization

Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization


President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

As Trump was seen signing the executive order, he spoke about how under his first term, the U.S. “paid $500 million” to the W.H.O., adding that China was paying less money to the W.H.O. Trump said he felt that it “seemed a little unfair.”

“That’s a big one,” Trump said. “So, we paid $500 million to [the] World Health Organization when I was here, and I terminated it. China, with 1.4 billion people, we have 350 … nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. But, let’s say we have 325, they have 1.4 billion, they were paying $39 million, we were paying

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