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The bill trades reduced U.N.-related spending and greater U.S. control over international commitments and properties for a substantial loss of influence, weakened multilateral cooperation (especially on health and security), program and job disruptions, and legal/diplomatic risks that can reverberate back to American interests and safety.
Federal policymakers and the U.S. government: regain greater unilateral control over international commitments, federal properties used by the UN, and negotiation flexibility (reduces multilateral constraints).
U.S. taxpayers and the federal budget: reduce or stop assessed and voluntary U.N. contributions and some peacekeeping-related expenditures, lowering federal outlays.
U.S. service members and military planners: lower the risk that Americans would serve under UN/multinational command in peacekeeping missions and avoid some peacekeeping deployments.
Taxpayers, U.S. government officials, and U.S. businesses: a major loss of U.S. influence in UN decision-making and diminished ability to shape international rules on trade, security, health, environment, and human rights.
U.S. residents and public-health agencies: weaker cooperation with WHO and other international health mechanisms, risking slower disease surveillance, poorer pandemic response, and reduced access to global public-health data and assistance.
Federal employees, contractors, and communities served by UN programs: significant job losses and disruption of services delivered through UN channels (humanitarian aid, disaster response, development programs), harming civilians abroad and some U.S. interests.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Terminates U.S. membership and funding for the UN and WHO, repeals enabling statutes, ends peacekeeping participation, strips UN immunities, and requires Senate consent for any rejoining.
Terminates U.S. membership and participation in the United Nations and related bodies, repeals the U.S. legal authority that allowed membership, and forbids almost all payments to or participation in UN organs and affiliated agencies. It also withdraws the United States from the UN Headquarters Agreement, ends participation in UN conventions and the World Health Organization authorization, strips UN personnel of immunities in the U.S., and blocks U.S. involvement in UN peacekeeping. The bill further restricts future re-entry by requiring Senate advice and consent for any new agreement to join the UN, and it permits only narrowly limited funding to carry out withdrawal and repatriation of U.S. personnel and property during the termination process.
Introduced February 21, 2025 by Charles Roy · Last progress February 21, 2025