Trump hasn’t followed through on plan to withdraw US from WHO

Enlarge / World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Fabrice Coffrini )

On May 29, President Trump said his administration would take immediate action to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization.

"Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization, and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent global public health needs," Trump said at the time, while criticizing the WHO's response to the coronavirus pandemic and claiming that "China has total control" over the United Nations agency.

But now, two weeks later, there's nothing to indicate that Trump has followed through on his plan. In an article yesterday titled "US hasn't taken action to withdraw from WHO despite Trump pledge," The Hill wrote that "no steps toward a formal withdrawal have been taken," and that "a WHO spokesman told The Hill that the agency had received no formal notification that the United States would withdraw."

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