Trump aims for immediate WHO withdrawal
President-elect Donald Trump intends to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) on day one of his new term, his transition team has said.
The US is the WHO’s largest donor, accounting for roughly 16% of its funding. Trump announced plans to withdraw from the WHO during his first term but the process was never completed. When the Biden administration took power, it intensified US participation in the globalist organization.
Georgetown Law Global Health Professor Lawrence Gostin told the Financial Times that a withdrawal from the WHO would be “catastrophic” and warned it could lead to “very lean years for the WHO where it will struggle to respond to health emergencies and will have to reduce its scientific staff considerably.”
The pandemic agreement
A pullout would not only be a financial blow to the WHO but would also significantly weaken its agenda to become a global biosecurity government. For over two years, the WHO has been making desperate attempts to ratify a “pandemic agreement” that would grant Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus singular power to declare pandemics for countries around the world. Ghebreyesus could announce a pandemic at any time and for any reason, such as a virus, a social condition like loneliness, or a phenomenon like “climate change.”
Once a pandemic is declared, countries would be forced to transform into biosecurity states. Governments would be bound to respond to the “emergency” with such measures as censoring “misinformation” and cracking down on taxpayers who are non-compliant with public health measures. To that end, the WHO has partnered with the European Union to develop a global vaccine passport to “facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world.”
Despite the Biden administration’s strong support for a pandemic accord, the agreement has hit a significant snag. Negotiations for a final draft of the treaty have stalled, frustrating WHO officials who had hoped it would be signed at the World Health Assembly in May.
One Health
A WHO withdrawal would also signal a departure from the WHO’s One Health approach, which views climate change as the driving factor behind public health. Warmer climates, for example, can fuel tick infestations which can bring with them deadly diseases like Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Changing weather patterns are alleged to spread bird flu.
Therefore, One Health would prioritize climate change over human health in some regard. If the climate is the chief determinant of the health of all living things, all sacrifices for the climate can theoretically be justified. A zoonotic disease outbreak could open the door for climate mandates like lockdowns and forced vaccinations to "stop the spread."
One Health has been endorsed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and has already made its way into US legislation. In December 2022, Congress quietly passed the Advancing Emergency Preparedness Through One Health Act (HR 2061/S 681) which commissions the establishment of a One Health program in the U.S. The heads of federal agencies such as the CDC, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Homeland Security(DHS), Department of Defense (DoD) and others have joined to create the One Health Coordination Unit (OHCU), which aims to advance the One Health agenda.
