{"id":9651,"date":"2026-01-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9651"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:27:24","slug":"us-formally-withdraws-from-world-health-organization-leaving-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/us-formally-withdraws-from-world-health-organization-leaving-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"US formally withdraws from World Health Organization, leaving debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), one year after the Trump administration shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its intention<\/a> to leave the global agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/member-states-to-discuss-us-withdrawal-from-who-as-failure-to-pay-fees-violates-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At that time<\/a>, the United States was said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/who-world-health-organization-trump-tedros-00740545\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provide about 20%<\/a> of the WHO\u2019s operational budget, but this week WHO officials said the United States has failed to pay membership dues for both 2024 and 2025, leaving the global alliance with a $278&nbsp;million debt.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO says withdrawal is not complete until the United States pays its debts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), one year after the Trump administration shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its intention<\/a> to leave the global agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/member-states-to-discuss-us-withdrawal-from-who-as-failure-to-pay-fees-violates-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At that time<\/a>, the United States was said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/who-world-health-organization-trump-tedros-00740545\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provide about 20%<\/a> of the WHO\u2019s operational budget, but this week WHO officials said the United States has failed to pay membership dues for both 2024 and 2025, leaving the global alliance with a $278&nbsp;million debt.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO says withdrawal is not complete until the United States pays its debts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/us-formally-withdraws-from-world-health-organization-leaving-debt\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US formally withdraws from World Health Organization, leaving debt<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1301,309,1252,51,283],"class_list":["post-9651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kakistocracy","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9653,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9651\/revisions\/9653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}