The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

President Trump has signed an executive order​ beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”

The move means that the US would leave the health agency in 12 months and stop all financial contributions to its work.

Among President Trump’s flurry of executive orders was one reviving a pandemic-era pledge: to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Trump signed an order in the Oval Office to withdraw the U.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.