The United States has formally severed its relationship with the World Health Organization, marking a decisive break from an institution many conservatives view as emblematic of failed globalism and unaccountable bureaucracy.
According to RedState, the move fulfills a long-standing promise by President Donald Trump to disentangle the country from an organization whose credibility was badly damaged during the COVID-19 crisis. The administration announced the step on Thursday, declaring, ?? EFFECTIVE TODAY: The United States has exited the World Health Organization. This fulfills President Trumps commitment under an executive order signed one year ago, following the WHOs mishandling of COVID-19 and its ongoing lack of reform, accountability, & transparency.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the State Department jointly detailed the rationale, underscoring what they described as systemic failures at the WHO. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.
While legacy media outlets have reacted with alarm, the decision reflects a broader conservative critique of international institutions that appear more responsive to authoritarian regimes than to democratic accountability. For many on the right, the WHOs performance during the pandemicparticularly its deference to Beijingconfirmed long-held suspicions about the dangers of ceding sovereignty to global bodies.
For Americans who endured some of the harshest lockdowns and mandates, the announcement carries a personal resonance. As one California resident put it, living under Governor Gavin Newsoms sweeping restrictions, combined with guidance from the CDC, the megalomanic Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the WHO destroyed countless lives so I shed no tears for this decision.
The move also comes amid broader setbacks for the globalist agenda, including pushback at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where elites have long promoted expansive transnational governance. One widely shared message captured the mood among Trump supporters: ?? BREAKING: The United States withdraws from the World Health Organization TODAY, one year after President Trump's historic executive order from the Oval Office After 77 years, the USA is no longer a WHO member. LET'S GO! ???? Good riddance. Thank you President Trump! ????
HHS, now led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., issued a scathing assessment of the WHOs handling of the pandemic. The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.
The Department further argued that the organizations refusal to seriously consider a laboratory-related origin for the virus damaged its standing with the public. Those failures, HHS said, ended up eroding public trust by dismissing the possibility that the pathogen could have escaped from a Chinese lab.
Washington officials stressed that the United States will not abandon global health leadership but will no longer outsource its decisions to foreign bodies. As HHS stated, The U.S. is the worlds leading force in protecting public health, saving lives, and responding rapidly to infectious disease outbreaks. Going forward, the U.S. government will continue its global health leadership through existing and new engagements directly with other countries, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and faith-based entities.
For conservatives, the withdrawal underscores a broader realignment away from supranational organizations such as the European Union, the United Nations, and similar entities that often demand American resources while constraining American autonomy. One thing Trump has shown over and over again is that we dont need to bow down to the European Union, the United Nations, and other international bodies. While many of these institutions were well-meaning, a plethora have not shown to be beneficial to the U. S. of A.
As the United States charts a more sovereign course, the message from the administration and its supporters is unambiguous: national interests come first, and unaccountable global bureaucracies will no longer dictate American policy. The United States must look after its own interests, and for anyone who stands in the way: move aside. The WHO became another internationally politicized, weak-kneed, woke body, and its time to say goodbye.
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