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Newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid calling for the U.S. to retreat from the World Health Organization (WHO).
In 2020, Trump started the shot rolling toward extricating the U.S. from the United Nations agency, but President Joe Biden reversed people aft taking bureau successful 2021.
"The United States intends to retreat from the WHO. The Presidential Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations signed connected January 20, 2021, that retracted the United States’ July 6, 2020, notification of withdrawal is revoked," Trump's bid declares.
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"The Secretary of State shall instantly pass the Secretary-General of the United Nations, immoderate different applicable depositary, and the enactment of the WHO of the withdrawal," the bid instructs.
The U.S. Senate voted 99-0 connected Monday to corroborate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to service arsenic Secretary of State — Rubio voted for himself earlier resigning from the Senate.
Trump's bid calls for the Secretary of State and manager of the Office of Management and Budget to "pause the aboriginal transportation of immoderate United States Government funds, support, oregon resources to the WHO;" "recall and reassign United States Government unit oregon contractors moving successful immoderate capableness with the WHO;" arsenic good arsenic "identify credible and transparent United States and planetary partners to presume indispensable activities antecedently undertaken by the WHO."
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The WHO issued a connection connected Tuesday lamenting Trump's decision, and expressing anticipation that the U.S. volition rethink the move.
"The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to retreat from the Organization," the globalist assemblage noted. "We anticipation the United States volition reconsider and we look guardant to engaging successful constructive dialog to support the concern betwixt the USA and WHO, for the payment of the wellness and well-being of millions of radical astir the globe."
Trump signed a flurry of orders aft taking bureau connected Monday.
One of them declares it U.S. argumentation "to admit 2 sexes, antheral and female," which "are not changeable and are grounded successful cardinal and incontrovertible reality."
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Trump is lone the 2nd president successful U.S. past to triumph predetermination to 2 non-consecutive presumption — the archetypal was Grover Cleveland successful the 19th century.
Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report
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