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President Trump issues over 80 orders, gets US to exit from WHO
- IBJ Bureau
- Jan 22, 2025
US President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday (January 20), issuing a barrage of executive orders and repealing multiple directives of the previous administration.
Mr Trump signed as many as 80 executive orders, declaring a national emergency at the US border with Mexico, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO) and ending birthright citizenship.
The order to withdraw from the WHO cited “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic”, “failure to adopt urgently-needed reforms”, “inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member States”, and for continued demand of “unfairly onerous payments from the United States.”
The move does not come as a surprise, considering Mr Trump had threatened to withdraw in his last term too, and officially notified the UN General Secretary of the decision in 2020. Nonetheless, health experts are concerned about the cut in funding and expertise that the WHO may experience in the coming years.
In another order, Mr Trump sought to revoke birthright citizenship – automatic citizenship of children born in the US to non-citizen parents.
The order titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship specifies that those who were born in the US “but not subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are excluded from birthright citizenship.
The Indian-American community, which is one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the US, will be profoundly impacted by this change as and when it comes through.
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