WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting in Beijing in 2020. (Naohiko Hatta/Pool Photo via AP, File)
An analysis of national contributions to the WHO from NPR found that the U.S. pays for roughly 10% of the WHO's budget, while China pays about 3%.
Trump withdrew the U.S. from the WHO in an executive order issued hours after he was sworn into office last week. The president cited reasons such as WHO's "mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic," the "failure to adopt urgently needed reforms," and "unfairly onerous payments" forced on the U.S. During Trump's first term, in July 2020, he took steps to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO but his successor, former President Joe Biden, eventually reinstated the nation's participation in the global health initiative.
Secretary-General Mark Rutte holds a press conference at NATO headquarters on Dec. 4, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
Following Trump's demands that NATO members spend 5% of their gross domestic product, he questioned whether the U.S. should be spending anything on NATO at all, telling reporters from the Oval Office that the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but those same members are "not protecting us."
"I'm not sure we should be spending anything, but we should certainly be helping them," Trump said from the Oval Office.
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