Freeze all ongoing treaty and international agreement negotiations

Partially done

Printed page 175 6. Department of State

“He or she should direct the Secretary of State to freeze any ongoing treaty or international agreement negotiations and assess whether those efforts align with the new President’s foreign policy direction.”

What has happened

Feb 4, 2025 Partially done
The nearest thing to the general review the Quote asks for is Executive Order 14199, which ordered the Secretary of State to review all international organizations the United States funds and “all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party” for consistency with United States interests. That is a review of instruments already in force, not of ongoing negotiations, and it carries no freeze. Its output was the memorandum of 2026-01-07 withdrawing from 66 organizations and from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Executive Order 14199, Withdrawing the United States From and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations (review of all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party)
  Primary Executive branch Feb 4, 2025
- Presidential Memorandum of January 7, 2026, Withdrawing the United States From International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties That Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
  Primary Executive branch Jan 7, 2026
Jan 20, 2025 Partially done
One set of live negotiations was stopped by name; none of the rest were. Executive Order 14155, section 4, directed that “the Secretary of State will cease negotiations on the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the amendments to the International Health Regulations”, and that actions taken to effectuate them “will have no binding force on the United States”. No order directs the Secretary to freeze treaty and international-agreement negotiations generally, and none directs the alignment assessment the Quote asks for.
- Executive Order 14155, Withdrawing the United States From the World Health Organization, section 4: the Secretary of State will cease negotiations on the WHO Pandemic Agreement and the amendments to the International Health Regulations
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Treaty negative search, run against the record Congress keeps of treaties: congress.gov’s treaty data, sorted by most recent update, holds 785 treaty records, and not one has been updated since 2025-01-15. The only Treaty Document of the 119th Congress is 119-1 (Mutual Legal Assistance), transmitted 2025-01-14 by the previous administration. So inside the window no treaty was transmitted, re-transmitted, withdrawn from the Senate, returned to the President, or acted on. A search for “treaty”, “treaties” and “international agreement” across the Federal Register, White House presidential actions, public laws and bills in Congress returns only the January 2026 withdrawal memorandum, Delegation of Authority No. 620, and unrelated fisheries and tax matters.
Boundary: partial on a named, executed stop of two live negotiations plus a review of instruments in force, against an ask for a blanket freeze on all negotiations.
Related: #472 (stand-down on unratified treaties), #473, #476; #515 and #521 in the major tier run on EO 14199 and EO 14155 as well.

Action: restrict
Object: Ongoing treaty and international agreement negotiations
ID: 471