The exit will cut a huge chunk from the World Health Organization’s budget, but the short-term financial gain for the US could come at the cost of disease outbreaks flaring up across the world.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, raising concerns about the U.N. agency's ability to fight diseases and respond to emergencies around the globe without its biggest funder.

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is “cataclysmic.”

On Monday evening, Trump signed an executive order stating the country’s intention to leave t. It’s a decision that’s likely to imperil public health both in the U.S. and globally. Many of you may be experiencing a bad sense of deja vu right about now.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it “regrets” President Trump’s move to withdraw from the global health authority, saying it hopes the U.S. will reconsider the decision. Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term announcing his intent to withdraw from the WHO,