{"id":30829,"date":"2025-01-18T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/uncharted-territory-for-the-who-if-trump-withdraws-us-membership\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:43:24","slug":"uncharted-territory-for-the-who-if-trump-withdraws-us-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/uncharted-territory-for-the-who-if-trump-withdraws-us-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO is \u2018critical in protecting US business interests\u2019, says CEO of firm that may see lean years if Trump carries out vow<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/world-health-organization\">World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) could see lean years ahead if the US withdraws membership under the new Trump administration. Such a withdrawal, promised on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e6061ed5-2703-4b8a-9948-a557aaaf52c2\">first day<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s new administration, would in effect cut the multilateral agency\u2019s funding by one-fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The severe cut would be uncharted territory for the WHO, potentially curtailing public health works globally, pressuring the organization to attract private funding, and providing an opening for other countries to influence the organization. Other countries are not expected to make up the funding loss.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/18\/world-health-organization-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO is \u2018critical in protecting US business interests\u2019, says CEO of firm that may see lean years if Trump carries out vow The World Health Organization (WHO) could see lean years ahead if the US withdraws membership under the new Trump administration. Such a withdrawal, promised on the first day of Donald Trump\u2019s new administration, &#8230; <a title=\"Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/uncharted-territory-for-the-who-if-trump-withdraws-us-membership\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}