AXIOS January 21, 2025
Sareen Habeshian

President Trump fulfilled his campaign pledge Monday to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization (WHO).

The big picture: The U.S. is the WHO’s top donor, contributing about $130 million per year to help cover its global health preparedness and response, along with efforts to address HIV, tuberculosis, and childhood vaccination, per Devex.

  • Trump started the process to withdraw from WHO during his first term, claiming the agency failed badly responding to COVID-19 and had not demonstrated its independence from China.
  • However, then-President Biden reversed it on his first day in office.

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