Secretary Kennedy, 20 May 2025

Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics. While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as… pic.twitter.com/VvWbVBkb6M

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 20, 2025

… China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public.

Global cooperation on health is still critically important to @POTUS and myself, but it isn’t working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. I urge the world's health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call.