{"id":9894,"date":"2026-01-21T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/trump-withdrawal-world-health-organization-leaves-unpaid-bills-behind\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:02:21","slug":"trump-withdrawal-world-health-organization-leaves-unpaid-bills-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/trump-withdrawal-world-health-organization-leaves-unpaid-bills-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"As U.S. prepares to exit WHO, it is stiffing the agency on a large bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

As U.S. prepares to exit WHO, it is stiffing the agency on a large bill
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When the United States\u2019 withdrawal from the World Health Organization goes into effect Thursday, the world\u2019s largest economy will be leaving the global health agency with a hefty unpaid bill.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has not made good on its assessed contributions for the past two years \u2014\u00a0including the final year of the Biden administration \u2014 effectively stiffing the WHO on a bill of roughly $278 million. In addition, several hundred million dollars in promised voluntary contributions for 2025 \u2014 and to a lesser extent for 2024 \u2014 have also not been delivered. Voluntary contributions are earmarked funds a country provides the WHO to support work that is of particular interest to that country.<\/p>\n

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As U.S. prepares to exit WHO, it is stiffing the agency on a large bill When the United States\u2019 withdrawal from the World Health Organization goes into effect Thursday, the world\u2019s largest economy will be leaving the global health agency with a hefty unpaid bill. The U.S. has not made good on its assessed contributions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}