{"id":395783,"date":"2026-01-08T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:42:13","slug":"trump-pulls-u-s-from-more-than-60-international-organizations-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395783\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pulls U.S. from more than 60 international organizations \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">President Donald Trump signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a presidential memorandum<\/a> on Wednesday that pulls the United States out of dozens of international organizations, including several related to the United Nations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The order instructs the U.S. withdrawal from 66 international organizations that \u201cno longer serve American interests.\u201d Trump had ordered his administration to review the country\u2019s participation in and funding required for the international organizations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2026\/01\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-withdraws-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> that withdrawing from the organizations will end American taxpayer dollars going toward entities that \u201cadvance globalist agendas over U.S. priorities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some organizations the United States will no longer be a part of, including climate and migration efforts, were considered by the administration to be \u201cwoke\u201d initiatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-nations-trump-international-organizations-withdrawal-d704fb9b444dc9cf569865d391b544a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-nations-trump-international-organizations-withdrawal-d704fb9b444dc9cf569865d391b544a6\">The Associated Press<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The order will take the U.S. out of 31 U.N.-related entities and 35 separate organizations that are working against the country\u2019s \u201cnational interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty,\u201d the White House said. Some of the non-U.N. organizations include the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the Global Counterterrorism Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pulled U.S. out of organizations on first day in office<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s the latest in a series of withdrawals for the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Trump\u2019s first day back in office, he signed an order that pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement. He also ended participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council and canceled any future funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for the Near East. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The White House said it\u2019s because Trump has \u201cprioritized American interests by redirecting focus and resources toward domestic priorities,\u201d including border security, the U.S. military and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecRubio\/status\/2009059107819671646?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared<\/a> the announcement online, saying Trump is removing the country from \u201canti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations.\u201d He said there is an ongoing review of additional organizations the U.S. could pull out from. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThese withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans \u2014 we will stop subsidizing globalist bureaucrats who act against our interests,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cThe Trump Administration will always put America and Americans first.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rubio, in a State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/01\/withdrawal-from-wasteful-ineffective-or-harmful-international-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>, also shared that the administration found that the organizations were \u201credundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run,\u201d and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPresident 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,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The United Nations has not yet commented on the new action from the U.S., but in r<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/2008221906365800644?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ecent remarks<\/a>, the international organization criticized the Trump administration\u2019s recent operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, saying it could lead to instability in the country and shared concern for the precedent it will set for how countries work with one another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday that pulls the United States out of dozens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,8793,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-395783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-news-feed-national","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}