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The bill would reduce U.S. spending and increase domestic control and legal accountability, but at the cost of significantly diminished U.S. influence, weaker global health and crisis cooperation, and likely diplomatic, legal, and transition costs that could harm American security, public health, and international partnerships.
Taxpayers: federal spending would fall because the U.S. would stop paying assessed UN (including some WHO) membership dues and related international-assistance contributions.
Federal employees and mission staff: reduced administrative, reporting, and operational obligations (and funds to carry out an orderly withdrawal) would free agency resources and enable repatriation of personnel and equipment.
State and local governments and taxpayers: U.S. sovereignty and domestic control over UN headquarters and other U.S. properties would increase, reserving those sites for domestic use and altering jurisdictional arrangements.
All Americans (taxpayers and communities): U.S. withdrawal would sharply reduce American influence in multilateral decisionmaking (peacekeeping, sanctions, treaty-setting, development), weakening the country's ability to shape international rules that affect U.S. security and economic interests.
State and local public-health authorities and the public: ending WHO/UN engagement risks losing access to disease surveillance, technical assistance, coordinated pandemic response, vaccine distribution, and other global health resources Americans rely on in crises.
Travelers, businesses, nonprofits, and state partners: withdrawal could disrupt consular support, treaty implementations, program partnerships, and coordination with U.N.-linked nonprofits, harming services and assistance delivered abroad and to Americans overseas.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Ends U.S. membership, funding, and privileges for the United Nations and affiliated bodies, withdraws from related agreements, bars UN use of U.S. property, and forbids UN peacekeeping participation.
Terminates U.S. membership, participation, and funding for the United Nations and its affiliated organs and agencies, closes the U.S. Mission to the UN, withdraws from the UN headquarters agreement and related treaties, and bars U.S. participation in UN peacekeeping and other UN activities. It also strips diplomatic privileges and immunities from UN personnel in the United States, forbids use of U.S. government property by the UN, and requires Senate advice-and-consent (with a reservation) before the U.S. could rejoin any UN body in the future. The measure blocks almost all funds for assessed and voluntary U.N. contributions (except for limited funds to facilitate withdrawal), ends statutory authorization for U.S. membership in the World Health Organization, and directs termination of U.S. obligations under conventions and agreements with the UN and its affiliated bodies.
Introduced February 20, 2025 by Mike Lee · Last progress February 20, 2025