KABUL: Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, has announced that President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. to withdraw from 66 international organizations.
In a post on his X, this morning Rubio noted that Washington will cease funding bureaucratic globalist entities that act contrary to U.S. interests.
In a section of the U.S. Department of State’s statement, it is mentioned that the Trump administration has concluded that these institutions are redundant in their areas of operation, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, and poorly run, or have fallen under the influence of actors pushing agendas contrary to U.S. interests.
The Department of State identified the organizations from which the U.S. plans to withdraw as “costly, inefficient, and harmful,” asserting that their activities pose a threat to “sovereignty, freedoms, and public welfare” in the United States.
According to the Department, the U.S. will no longer expend its diplomatic capital and legitimizing weight in institutions that are considered “irrelevant and contrary to its interests.”
This directive has been issued following a prior order from Trump that halted the activities of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which had been operating for over 60 years.
U.S. to withdraw from 66 international organizations, Rubio says
