US President Donald Trump plans to pull the US out of 66 United Nations and other global groups. These include key spots for work on climate change, peace, and democracy.
The White House shared a presidential memo on Wednesday night. Trump said a review found these groups, deals, and pacts go against US interests.
The US will stop taking part and cut all funding to them, Trump stated.
The White House list has 35 non-UN groups. It names the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. It also lists the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The White House called the IPCC a non-UN body. But it is a UN group. It gathers top scientists to check climate data. It gives reports to guide world leaders.
The list also covers 31 UN groups. These include the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the main climate treaty body. It has the UN Democracy Fund and UNFPA, the top UN group for maternal and child health.
Some targeted UN groups protect vulnerable people from war violence. One is the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters Wednesday night. The UN plans a reply by Thursday morning.
Trump says he wants less US role in UN work. Yet he keeps shaping global choices.
Last October, he threatened sanctions on diplomats. They had approved a tax on dirty shipping fuel from a prior meeting. This delayed the deal for a year.
The Trump team also hit UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese with sanctions. She wrote a report on global and US firms’ roles in Israel’s war on Gaza.
In 2017, Trump warned of aid cuts to nations backing a UN vote. That vote hit the US choice to call Jerusalem Israel’s capital.
As a permanent UN Security Council member, the US can veto actions. It is one of five such nations. The US used this power often to stop pushes against Israel’s Gaza war. A ceasefire came late last year after talks.
Trump started his second term in January 2025. He pulled the US from the World Health Organization, Paris climate deal, and UN Human Rights Council.
He left those groups in his first term too. Joe Biden’s team later rejoined them.
The WHO exit takes effect January 22, 2026. That is one year after the order.
From 2024 to 2025, the US gave the WHO Ksh33.7 billion. That was about 18% of its funds. The money aids global health work on issues like tuberculosis and pandemics such as COVID-19.
The Trump team kept a funding block on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Biden started that ban.
