Trump announces US withdrawal from 66 international organizations

President Trump announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international organizations that have contrary interests to the country.

Trump on Wednesday signed a memo that states Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote a report on "all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States."

After considering Rubio's report and discussing it with his Cabinet, Trump said that he had decided to withdraw the U.S. from the  organizations.

Rubio posted on X on Wednesday: "Today, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving 66 anti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations. Review of additional international organizations remains ongoing.

"These withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans - we will stop subsidizing globalist bureaucrats who act against our interests. The Trump Administration will always put America and Americans first."

In an explanation of the decision to withdraw from these organizations, Rubio said in a statement: "The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity.

"President Trump is clear: It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat, and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it. The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over."