President Trump wasted no time asserting his second-term agenda Monday – signing dozens of executive orders in a flurry of activity that began just moments after taking the oath of office.

Among President Trump’s flurry of executive orders was one reviving a pandemic-era pledge: to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Trump signed an order in the Oval Office to withdraw the U.

President Trump talked about Greenland and Gaza, discovered a letter from President Biden, and signed a slew of executive orders Monday evening in the Oval Office. The orders included pardoning more than a thousand people convicted of crimes committed during the Jan.

A tray of pens was also ready for Trump to kick off his slew of extreme executive orders, among them renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Golf of America, and departing the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the Paris Agreement, which legally binds nations to combat climate change.

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To get them out And as soon as I leave, I'm going to the Oval Office and we'll be signing ... process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than ...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. “Oooh that’s a big one,” Mr. Trump said at the Oval Office as he was handed the executive order to sign. He railed against the amount of money the U.S. pays into the organization, saying that China has more people but pays less.

More than half of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from its membership in the WHO. As of April 2024, 25% of U.S. adults say the country benefits a great deal from its membership, while about one third say it benefits a fair amount. Conversely, 38% say the U.S. does not benefit much or at all from WHO membership.

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.

The following editorial appeared in the New York Daily News. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Meadville Tribune.

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.