Restoring American Sovereignty: U.S. Exits Globalist Organizations, Climate Regime

By Carole Hornsby Haynes        January 13, 2026 

On January 7, President Trump signed a memorandum that withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations that “no longer serve American interests.” About half of those, including the U.N. climate organizations and agreements, are part of the United Nations. 

In his press statement Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, 

The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity. President Trump is clear: It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat, and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it. The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over. 

This latest exit from globalist agencies, commissions, and bodies follows U.S. withdrawal from the World Health organiation (WHO), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the U.N. Human Rights Council. 

With his pen, Trump dealt a mortal blow to the “international climate regime,” which includes the Paris Agreement built on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Analysts of the climate hoax have heralded the exit as the end of the climate fraud.Climate Depot editor Marc Morano said, “President Trump may have finished off the U.N. climate agenda with this bold action.” Signed in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush, the treaty created a multi-trillion bureaucracy that redistributes American wealth abroad. 

U.N. global warming hoaxsters are crying foul. The U.N., employing its usual tactic of guilt tripping Americans, claims the U.S. government has a “legal obligation” under the U.N. charter to continue funding globalist freeloaders. 

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell claims that no longer sending American money to international freeloaders will hurt “the U.S. economy, jobs, and living standards.” The goal of alarmists is to frighten naive Americans with the possibility of a greater number of “wildfires, floods, mega-storms and droughts” -- supposedly due to emissions of carbon dioxide -- if they abandon the climate change regime. The absurdity of this claim is exposed by Kamala Harris with her recent purchase of an $8.2 million oceanside mansion in Malibu despite her earlier warning that “sea levels are rising” because of a “climate crisis.” 

While Stiell attempts to assure the public that the next U.S. president can simply rejoin the UNFCCC, it is not that simple. The president can constitutionally withdraw from a treaty without Senate approval, but re-entering a climate treaty requires a two-thirds vote from the Senate, a nearly impossible task even in a less hostile political climate. 

Trump also announced exit of the U.S. government from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Scientists from around the world come together to assess the alleged man-made global warning. Their politicized predictions provide justification for the discredited climate narrative that is being used to build a world system. 

We can count on radical leftists to become violent and chaotic as they watch their lynch pin agenda disintegrating. 

While the U.S. is unlikely to return to the climate regime, a permanent exit from the U.N. is unlikely. 

Despite opposing the U.N. and other international organizations, Trump has shown that he is not fundamentally opposed to them and even supports granting them greater power over member states. He has expressed support for a more powerful U.N. as well as for NATO, a subsidiary of the U.N., even though Article 5 obligates the U.S. to go to war if another NATO member is attacked. He has also expressed support for enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention with the U.N. playing a constructive role. 

What is his rationale for remaining entangled in globalist organizations that seek world control, and more specifically, seek control of the United States and its wealth? 

The only solution for extricating America from globalist influences is to get totally out of the entire U.N. system. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to accomplish that. 

A comprehensive bill for total withdrawal is the Disengaging From the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act of 2025 (H.R.1498 and S.669), sponsored by Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah). The House companion bill currently has 17 co-sponsors, while the Senate companion bill has two co-sponsors. The bill proposes to fully withdraw the United States from all U.N. entities, completely defund the globalist body, and prevent a U.S. president from unilaterally rejoining it. 

Other legislation to withdraw the United States from individual international organizations has been introduced, including: 

-- H.R. 54, the WHO Withdrawal Act, sponsored by Representative Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), would codify Trump’s order withdrawing the United States from the WHO;

-- House Joint Resolution 93, sponsored by Representative Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), would withdraw the United States from the WTO; and

-- H.R. 6508 and S. 2174, the “Not A Trusted Organization” (NATO) Act, sponsored by Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Lee, would withdraw the United States from NATO. 

The American people can influence passage by calling and meeting with their U.S. representatives and senators and educating their fellow Americans about the urgency of exiting the U.N. and other international organizations. President Trump needs to hear from his MAGA base that the U.S. must not be involved with the U.N. on any level.