America has officially cut ties with the World Health Organization, completing the withdrawal process on January 22, 2026 and reclaiming control over our public-health decisions. After decades of sending American taxpayer dollars overseas, Washington has said enough — this isn’t isolation, it’s sovereignty restored for the sake of American families.
President Trump fulfilled the promise he made on day one of his second term by invoking the one-year notice required to leave the WHO, a move driven by what his administration calls the organization’s failures during the Wuhan pandemic. Conservatives who warned about global institutions overriding American judgment have been vindicated, and this administration finally acted on that warning.
For too long the United States carried a wildly disproportionate share of WHO funding, pouring hundreds of millions into an agency that repeatedly failed transparency and accountability tests. Washington’s fact sheet lays out the reality — mandatory dues and voluntary donations together amounted to a massive investment from U.S. taxpayers that wasn’t delivering reliable results for American health security.
The WHO’s own spokesmen have complained that the U.S. was behind on payments, and critics say that reality makes the agency’s moral outrage ring hollow. If the global bureaucracy wants to lecture America about values and competence while accepting money from regimes that don’t share our principles, hardworking Americans have every right to say no more.
Washington’s departure has predictably drawn scorn from the international commentariat, who argue that global coordination will suffer and Americans will be less safe. Those warnings are politically convenient, but they ignore a key truth: the United States still leads the world in biomedical innovation, and we can choose smart, bilateral partnerships that protect our citizens without bowing to a politicized Geneva bureaucracy.
This administration has made it clear the United States will pivot from WHO-controlled mechanisms to direct agreements with other nations, NGOs, and private partners — a strategy that puts American priorities first. Conservative patriots know that national security means being able to say no to global schemes that would trample our freedoms or send our resources abroad without accountability.
Now the work begins: Congress must fund our domestic agencies properly, insist on transparency in any international deals, and ensure the CDC and NIH are empowered to protect American communities. The WHO era of unchecked globalist influence over public health is over for now — and that should give every family in this country confidence that their government will put them first.
