adminThe United States has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a move announced by Health and Human Services officials as the one-year notice triggered by the administration reached its conclusion on January 22, 2026. This ends nearly eight decades of American membership and marks a decisive break with an international bureaucracy that too often put global optics above American lives.
President Trump set this course on January 20, 2025 with an executive order that cited WHO’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis and its refusal to enact meaningful reforms, and the administration followed through by pausing funding and recalling personnel during the withdrawal process. Washington’s action was deliberate and legal under the terms the United States agreed to, and it was carried out with the blunt clarity Americans expect from leaders who put our sovereignty first.
Geneva’s bureaucracy predictably expressed regret and warned of consequences, while establishment experts fretted about lost access to WHO systems and data-sharing platforms crucial for pandemic surveillance. Their hand-wringing reveals where their loyalties lie: not with the American taxpayer, but with preserving a failed global status quo that sheltered opaque regimes and rewarded obfuscation.
Conservative voices on the Ingraham Angle and guest experts like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya rightly tore into the WHO’s record, arguing that an organization that covered for political actors and tolerated Chinese opacity during the crucial early days of the pandemic had forfeited moral authority. For years Trump supporters and principled skeptics warned that continuing to bankroll a politicized global body without reforms was simply paying for our own marginalization; now the United States has reclaimed the ability to act directly and accountably.
Let’s be plain: the WHO was never just about health; it became a global money pit and a playground for diplomats who answer to regimes, not voters. For decades American taxpayers carried a disproportionate share of the bill while receiving nothing more than platitudes and performance reviews that excused failures and punished whistleblowers.
Now comes the hard, patriotic work of rebuilding American leadership on our terms — through bilateral agreements, targeted aid, and rigorous oversight that ensures every dollar delivers results, not press releases. If that means upsetting international elites and their media allies who prefer the old unaccountable order, so be it; real leadership is measured by results, not approval from Geneva.
To every hardworking American who has watched bureaucrats lecture us while kowtowing to hostile powers: take heart. This administration has chosen accountability over appeasement and American citizens over global image. The fight now is to ensure our agencies remain transparent, our scientists free from political pressure, and our neighbors safe — all without giving globalist institutions unchecked power over American life.
