The World Health Organisation was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ agenda.
On January 20, the President signed an Executive Order to withdraw the US from the WHO citing ‘mishandling of the Covid pandemic that arose in Wuhan, China, and other global health crises’.
The order also took issue with the WHO’s ‘failure to adopt urgently needed reforms and its inability to demonstrate independence from inappropriate political influence of WHO member states’.
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