The Trump administration’s recent move to withdraw from 66 international organizations sounded like a bold “America First” foreign policy move, but will actually have little impact on US funds flowing to multilateral groups.
President Donald Trump last week announced an exit from 31 United Nations entities and 35 other entities, but what the US spends on these groups is less than 3% of what it contributed to international organizations in 2023, according to a review by Brett Schaefer, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
“They’re not the big-ticket items,” Schaefer said of the institutions listed in ...
