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- The United States ended its membership in the World Health Organization.
- The administration plans to exit 66 other entities, mostly non-treaty organizations.
- U.S. President Donald Trump framed the move as reducing entanglements with organizations disconnected from American democracy.
- The exit could open litigation against the WHO over its handling of the Covid pandemic.
- Future withdrawals should target legacy treaty bodies like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
