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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: 1, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:29PM
Because back in the day when Bill Clinton was really rolling on job gutting free trade deals with the third world labor market -- China contributed to his campaign. Now that the Democrats are 100% on the side of job exporting corporations who have the good grace to fly a rainbow flag and post a black square (because meaningless symbolism costs nothing and if they can get those racist border walls torn down, nobody will make over $1/day ever again), they need to pay homage to those who paid megabucks (not some piddly prole's $26).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy [wikipedia.org]