WHO Cuts Over 2,000 Workers Due To President Trump’s Executive Order Cutting Funds

The days of freeloading from the United States are over.

The World Health Organization has announced it will cut over 2,000 workers.

The move by the WHO comes after the Trump admin withdrew funding from the organization.

.@WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding AND still have a budget gap… https://t.co/xsN5k3M81u

— Dr. Ali Khan (@DrAliSKhan) November 19, 2025

The Guardian reported more on the cuts:

The World Health Organization has said its workforce will shrink by nearly a quarter – or over 2,000 jobs – by the middle of next year as it seeks to implement reforms after its top donor, the United States, announced its departure.

US President Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the body upon taking office in January, prompting the agency to scale back its work and cut its management team by half.

Washington is by far the UN health agency’s biggest financial backer, contributing about 18% of its overall funding.

The Geneva-based WHO projects that its workforce will shrink by 2,371 posts by June 2026 from 9,401 in January 2025 due to job cuts as well as retirements and departures, according to a presentation set to be shown to its member states on Wednesday.

It does not include the many temporary staff, or consultants, which UN sources say have been made redundant. A WHO spokesperson confirmed the total number of staff leaving the organisation and said the workforce would shrink by up to 22%, depending on how many vacant posts are filled.

While the global health agency said in August that hundreds of staff had departed, this is the first time it has given the full scale of the expected change to its global staff.

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Trump signs executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organization.

US funds ~15.6% of WHO’s annual revenue.

WHO has refused to advocate for or visit the Israeli hostages – 2 of whom are children.

This is what happens when you side with genocidal terrorist enemies… pic.twitter.com/XxWaA40JXj

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) January 21, 2025

Here’ the Executive Order from Trump, per The White House:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300 percent of the population of the United States, yet contributes nearly 90 percent less to the WHO.

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