Overview
- Santiago Caputo, an adviser aligned with President Javier Milei, retweeted the U.S. State Department message and declared that the era of multilateralism has ended.
- President Donald Trump formalized the withdrawals through a Presidential Memorandum covering 66 international organizations.
- The State Department argued that the current system treats U.S. taxpayers as guarantors of an expanding global governance architecture and that the era of blank checks for international bureaucracies is over.
- In statements attributed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the international system was described as crowded with opaque bodies that duplicate mandates and deliver poor results, with a continuing review of U.S. participation signaled.
- Official messaging framed the move within America’s long role in shaping the global order, asserting that institutions that no longer meet peace, prosperity, and freedom objectives should be left.