State Department USA
10 January 2026.
Author: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
The United States played a key function in shaping global order. From Monroe's doctrine, which has enabled nations in our region to make free from interference outside our hemisphere, through our key function in the creation of the United Nations, to the function of the main safety guarantor within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the world's largest humanitarian aid donors, the leadership of America is unquestioned. Leadership requires hard choices and designation skills erstwhile institutions designed to advance peace, prosperity and freedom become obstacles to these objectives. What we call an "international system" is now overflowing with hundreds of opaque global organisations, many of which have overlapping mandates, duplicating actions, ineffective results and mediocre financial and ethical governance. Even those who erstwhile performed useful functions are becoming increasingly inefficient bureaucracy, platforms of politicised activism or instruments contrary to the best interests of our nation. Not only do these institutions fail, but they make it hard for those who want to solve these problems. The era of issuing empty checks for global bureaucracy is over.
This week, in line with the provisions of Executive Regulation No 14199, president Trump announced withdrawal from 66 global organisations identified as part of an ongoing review by the Trump administration for inefficient, ineffective and harmful global organisations. The Presidential Memorandum concerns institutions that are surplus, which is unnecessary in their scope, improperly run, unnecessary, inefficient, mismanaged, corrupted by entities pursuing their own goals contrary to ours or threatening the sovereignty, freedom and general well-being of our nation.
There is no point in investing hard-earned American taxpayers' money in institutions that cannot show results, work or respect our national interests. Further backing and promotion of organisations that block solutions to the problems of the modern world, specified as inexpensive energy, economical growth and national sovereignty, is America's abdication from global leadership. The continued participation of the United States in these organizations only legitimizes their existence and the model that has failed billions of people worldwide.
From the long past of violations of the UN's Ethical Population Fund, including backing for forced abortion, to UN Women's inability to specify what a female is in general, to wasting millions of dollars by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to finance climate alarmism and anti-energy investments in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, to the UN Standing Forum on African Peoples of Origin openly proclaiming a racist policy for global reparation – these organisations can boast a consistent past of dysfunction, if not even outright malicious. The American people, our partners and billions of people around the planet who anticipate leadership from the United States deserve better. Our continued participation in organizations that do not reflect our values or service our interests would be to abandon our national duty.
The organisations we have decided to retreat from were selected after a thorough analysis of their purpose, actions, efficiency, effectiveness, necessity and, most importantly, their ability to support us in the implementation of American national interests. The ones we retreat from are not the only culprits. Our analysis of the United States' participation in global organisations is inactive ongoing.
This does not mean that America is turning distant from the world. We simply reject the outdated model of multilateralism – 1 that treats the American payer as a global guarantor of extended architecture of global governance.
The Trump administration is demanding real results from the institutions we finance and participate in, and we are ready to run for reform. president Trump made it clear, among another things, in the Presidential Memorandum published this week, that he would not let global organisations to undermine the United States and restrict our national sovereignty, energy independence, economical prosperity, democracy and constitutional freedoms. It will not let the United States to proceed to finance a failed model whose improvement is incurable or even impossible. The Presidential Memorandum published this week showed that America no longer accepts the corrupt position quo, that the nation is ready to lead, as always, and that sometimes actual leadership means that you request to know erstwhile to withdraw.
Marco Rubio was sworn in at 72. Secretary of State on January 21, 2025. The secretary creates the State Department that puts America first.
