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Trump Ditches 66 International Organizations: America First Means No More Blank Checks for Globalist Grift

Posted on by Bill McCarthy

President Trump has signed a presidential memorandum ordering the immediate withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties that no longer serve American interests. This is not some vague rumor or media spin. It is official policy, flowing straight from Executive Order 14199 issued in February 2025 that ordered a full review of every outfit sucking up U.S. taxpayer dollars. The result is a clean break from 35 non-UN bodies and 31 UN-linked entities that pushed climate hysteria, migration schemes, gender ideology, and endless bureaucratic bloat while delivering zero benefit to the American people. This is America First in action: stop funding institutions that undermine sovereignty, waste money, and advance agendas hostile to U.S. workers, borders, and security.

The Breakdown: 35 Non-UN Organizations and 31 UN Entities Getting the Boot

The list is not a random hit list. It targets outfits that have spent years lecturing America while burning through American cash. Among the 35 non-UN organizations are climate-focused groups like the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the International Renewable Energy Agency, the International Solar Alliance, and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century. These are the same entities that pushed the green-energy fantasy that drove up energy prices and hurt American manufacturing.

Other non-UN cuts include migration and globalist forums such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development, the Global Counterterrorism Forum, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation. There are niche trade and resource groups like the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Lead and Zinc Study Group, the International Tropical Timber Organization, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Cultural and regional outfits round it out: the Colombo Plan Council, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Education Cannot Wait fund, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, and more obscure bodies like the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories and the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine.

On the UN side, the 31 entities include heavy hitters like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UN Population Fund, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (better known as UN Women), the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the UN Human Settlements Programme, and the UN Alliance of Civilizations. The list also sweeps in regional economic commissions, the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission and Fund, the UN Democracy Fund, UN Energy, UN Oceans, UN Water, the UN University, and various special offices on Africa, children in armed conflict, sexual violence, and violence against children. These are the outfits that turned UN meetings into anti-American echo chambers and used U.S. funding to promote open borders, abortion policies, and endless climate guilt trips.

Why This Had to Happen: Globalist Institutions That Worked Against America

These organizations did not drift into irrelevance by accident. They became vehicles for agendas that put foreign bureaucrats, climate zealots, and migration advocates ahead of American taxpayers. They funneled U.S. dollars into programs that undermined border security, attacked fossil fuels that power American industry, and pushed social engineering that had nothing to do with U.S. national security or prosperity. The review under Executive Order 14199 exposed the waste, duplication, and outright hostility. Many duplicated each other’s missions. Others were captured by interests hostile to U.S. sovereignty. All of them operated on the assumption that America would keep writing the checks no matter how little value it received.

Trump’s memorandum is blunt: participation in these bodies is “contrary to the interests of the United States.” The directive orders every executive department and agency to cease participation and funding as quickly as possible. This is not isolationism. It is realism. America does not need a permission slip from Geneva or New York to protect its borders, drill its energy, or defend its people. The globalist model assumed endless American generosity would buy goodwill. It bought contempt instead.

The Bigger Picture: Reclaiming Sovereignty and Taxpayer Dollars

This move builds on earlier actions—pulling out of the World Health Organization, the UN Human Rights Council, UNESCO, and the Paris Agreement again. Those were previews. The January 2026 memorandum is the full reckoning. It ends U.S. support for entities that promoted policies directly at odds with Trump’s agenda on energy dominance, secure borders, and fair trade. Taxpayers will no longer subsidize conferences where America gets blamed for the world’s problems while adversaries like China and Russia face no scrutiny.

The savings will be real. These organizations lived off American contributions that could now stay home to fund priorities like border security, military readiness, and domestic infrastructure. The message to the international community is unmistakable: America First is not a slogan. It is policy. If an organization cannot demonstrate concrete benefits to the United States, it gets no more American money or membership.

America First Reality Check

The left and the foreign-policy establishment are already howling that this isolates America and cedes ground to adversaries. Spare us the lectures. The real isolation was the old approach—pouring billions into outfits that undermined U.S. interests while expecting gratitude that never came. Trump just ended the grift. These 66 organizations were not advancing peace, prosperity, or American values. They were advancing a vision of global governance that treated U.S. sovereignty as an obstacle.

With the 2026 midterms approaching, voters get to decide whether they want more of the same globalist waste or the clear-eyed realism that puts American workers, families, and security first. The withdrawals are complete. The cash spigot is off. And the United States is stronger for it. No more blank checks for institutions that forgot who kept the lights on. America is charting its own course—again.

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