Order a cost-benefit analysis of every international organization the U.S. joins

What has happened

1. Jan 7, 2026 Done

   The review was completed and acted on. The President's memorandum recites that "The Secretary of State has reported his findings as required by Executive Order 14199", that he considered the report and deliberated with the Cabinet, and it then directs withdrawal from the organizations named in section 2. State's contemporaneous release frames the exercise as removing "wasteful, ineffective, or harmful" organizations. The Secretary's report itself is not public and the order framed the exercise as an interests-and-reformability review rather than a costed one; a Federal Register full-text search for the quoted phrase "cost-benefit analysis of United States participation" since 2025-01-20 returns 0 documents.

   • 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

2. Feb 4, 2025 Attempted

   EO 14199 section 3(b) directs the Secretary of State, in consultation with the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, to conduct within 180 days "a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States and whether such organizations, conventions, or treaties can be reformed", and to report findings and withdrawal recommendations to the President. The review was ordered but not yet done.

   • 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

     Primary Executive branch Feb 4, 2025