{"id":1050558,"date":"2024-12-23T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050558"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:52:16","slug":"icymi-donald-trumps-transition-team-seeks-to-pull-us-out-of-who-on-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-transition-team-seeks-to-pull-us-out-of-who-on-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO \u2018on day one\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1038290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s transition team is pushing to pull the US out of the World Health Organization on the first day of the new administration, according to experts who warn of the \u2018catastrophic\u2019 impact it would have on global health. Members of Trump\u2019s team told the experts of their intention to announce a withdrawal from the global health body on the president-elect\u2019s January 20 inauguration. The departure would remove the WHO\u2019s biggest source of funds, damaging its ability to respond to public health crises such as the coronavirus pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e6061ed5-2703-4b8a-9948-a557aaaf52c2\"><strong>Financial Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Donald Trump\u2019s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO \u2018on day one\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Hannah Kuchler and Oliver Barnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Donald Trump\u2019s transition team is pushing to pull the US out of the World Health Organization on the first day of the new administration, according to experts who warn of the \u201ccatastrophic\u201d impact it would have on global health. <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Members of Trump\u2019s team told the experts of their intention to announce a withdrawal from the global health body on the president-elect\u2019s January 20 inauguration. The departure would remove the WHO\u2019s biggest source of funds, damaging its ability to respond to public health crises such as the coronavirus pandemic.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cAmerica is going to leave a huge vacuum in global health financing and leadership. I see no one that is going to fill the breach,\u201d said Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health at Georgetown Law, adding that <strong>the plan to withdraw \u201con day one\u201d would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d for global health.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The battle over US relations with the WHO comes after Trump nominated several allies, such as vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy, for top health jobs in the next administration.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2020, Trump initiated the process to leave the WHO as Covid-19 spread, accusing the agency of being under China\u2019s control. But the process was never finished and his successor Joe Biden restarted relations with the agency on his first day of office in 2021.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Experts have been told that some in <strong>Trump\u2019s team want to move much faster this time around<\/strong> after initiating the process immediately.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bodies such as the <strong>WHO are key to global co-operation on vaccine development and distribution <\/strong>as well as other treatments during health emergencies, said Jha.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Jha] warned that <strong>if the US left the WHO, <\/strong>European countries were unlikely to step up funding and<strong> China might try to wield more influence. \u201cIt would not be a smart move as withdrawal would cede leadership to China,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s transition team is pushing to pull the US out of the World Health Organization on the first day of the new administration, according to experts who warn of the \u2018catastrophic\u2019 impact it would have on global health. Members of Trump\u2019s team told the experts of their intention to announce a withdrawal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO \u2018on day one\u2019 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-transition-team-seeks-to-pull-us-out-of-who-on-day-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T21:52:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T21:52:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-transition-team-seeks-to-pull-us-out-of-who-on-day-one\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-donald-trumps-transition-team-seeks-to-pull-us-out-of-who-on-day-one\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Donald Trump\u2019s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO \u2018on day one\u2019 - 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