W.H.O. Begins Cutbacks as Lack of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Bites Hard

Drastic cuts forced on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) by President Donald Trump withdrawing U.S. taxpayer dollars from the globalist behemoth are hitting hard, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lamented.

Ghebreyesus told the agency’s annual executive board meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, that 2025 was “undeniably one of the most difficult years in our organisation’s history”, with many donors tightening their belts, AFP reports.

“Significant cuts to our funding left us with no choice but to reduce the size of our workforce,” he said.

The United States reserved the right to withdraw when it joined the W.H.O. in 1948 — on condition of one year’s notice, and meeting its financial obligations in full for that fiscal year.

Trump confirmed the U.S. was exiting the agency