The United Nations assures us that the World Health Organization will leave in 2026 | Donald Trump news

The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders the WHO to discontinue.

The United States is scheduled to formally withdraw from World Health Organization (WHO) In January 2026, after the United Nations received an official letter from US President Donald Trump this week.

UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Hakla said Thursday that the withdrawal was now in motion after Trump pledged on Monday — his first day in office — to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and put an end to future funding for the organization.

“I can confirm that we have now received the US letter about the WHO withdrawal. It is dated January 22, 2025. That would result in a year yesterday, January 22, 2026,” Haq said.

Trump also ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Director of the US Government’s Office of Management and Budget to “cease the future transfer of any US Government funds, support, or resources to the World Health Organization.”

Washington recalled all US government personnel working with the World Health Organization and ordered them to stop participating in negotiations on a WHO-led global treaty on dealing with pandemics.

With the departure of the United States, the WHO will lose its most important financial supporter.

The United States contributes about 18 percent of the organization’s funding, which amounts to about $261 million between 2024 and 2025. This contribution is followed in second place by China with $181 million. The World Health Organization’s loss of its top donor will impact the global health agency’s ability to address major crises from tuberculosis to HIV/AIDS and global pandemics, according to experts.

Trump has been accused of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic during his first term in office and sent a request to Withdrawal from the organization In July 2020.

This withdrawal attempt was thwarted when Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, who immediately withdrew the order once in office.

Many health experts have accused Trump and his administration of watering down the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization issued a statement saying it regretted the announced departure of the United States and noted that its work “plays an important role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans.”

“We hope that the United States will reconsider and look forward to engaging in a constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the United States and the United States for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the world,” the WHO said.

The United States joined the WHO in 1948 through joint resolutions from both houses of Congress, which leave a question mark over whether Trump could unilaterally withdraw US membership without congressional approval, according to Jan Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Pennsylvania.

Legal experts said Trump’s Republican Party controls both the US Senate and the House of Representatives, but the withdrawal could still be challenged in court. Trump made a unilateral decision to withdraw from. But we joined in 1948 by act of Congress. “Trump needs Congress to agree to withdraw,” Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, wrote on social media.

“His decision is too disastrous to have been made without Congress and the courts. As director of the WHO Center, I am considering a lawsuit.

Trump made a unilateral decision to withdraw from. But we joined in 1948 by act of Congress. Trump needs congressional approval to withdraw. His decision is too disastrous to have been made without Congress and the courts. As director of the WHO Center, I am considering a lawsuit.

– Lawrence Gostin (@lawrencegostin) January 21, 2025