U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.”
That includes 31 United Nations entities, as well as 35 non-U.N. organizations “that operate contrary to U.S. national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty,” according to a White House fact sheet issued Wednesday. Trump directed U.S. agencies to cease participating and funding the entities in a presidential memo.
Trump and his allies have long expressed disdain for the U.N., other international organizations and accords. The decision extends the Trump administration’s retreat from international climate diplomacy by pulling back from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty that lays out a goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and compels member countries to provide a yearly inventory of that planet-warming pollution.
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