# Executive Order 14199 Signed 4 February 2025, this order ended US participation in the UN Human Rights Council, cut off all funding to [[UNRWA]], ordered a 90-day review of UNESCO membership, and — the provision that mattered most — directed a **180-day review of every international organization receiving US funds**. That last clause is the one to read. The named withdrawals were the visible action; the review was the machinery. Eleven months later it produced the [[2026 International Organizations Withdrawal Memorandum]], which pulled the US out of 66 bodies at once. EO 14199 is best understood not as a discrete decision but as the instruction to build a target list. ## What It Did **UN Human Rights Council** — the US ceased participation, eliminated the US Representative position, committed not to seek election, and began withholding the share of the UN regular budget attributable to the Council. **UNRWA** — all funding ended. Congress subsequently codified the ban; the FY2026 appropriations act extends the statutory prohibition through 25 March 2027. See [[UNRWA]] for the agency's resulting collapse in service capacity. **UNESCO** — a 90-day review, which in July 2025 produced a withdrawal announcement effective end of December 2026. **Everything else** — a 180-day review of all international organizations, conventions, and treaties to which the US is a party. ## The Universal Periodic Review Walkout The Human Rights Council provision produced an unusual first. On 7 November 2025 the United States became the first country to simply **not appear for its own Universal Periodic Review** — the peer-review process every UN member state undergoes on a fixed cycle. No national report was filed and no delegation attended. The Council adopted a decision regretting the non-cooperation and rescheduled the US review to the 53rd Working Group session in **November 2026**, still upcoming. The UPR is not an adversarial proceeding. It is a scheduled, reciprocal, everyone-does-it exercise, and its universality was the entire design principle — the answer to the objection that human-rights scrutiny is selectively applied to weak states. A permanent Security Council member declining to show up removes that answer. ## Why It Matters Here EO 14199 is the opening move of a two-year sequence, and its structure tells you the sequence was planned rather than improvised. A president who wanted to exit the Human Rights Council could have exited the Human Rights Council. This order exited the Council **and commissioned an inventory of everything else**. The review-then-act pattern is the same one the vault tracks in [[Schedule F]] and [[DOGE]]: establish a review with a deadline, staff it with people who already know the answer, and treat its output as a mandate. The [[Project 2025]] chapter on international organizations supplied the target categories; the 180-day review supplied the list; the January 2026 memorandum executed it. ## See Also - [[2026 International Organizations Withdrawal Memorandum]] — what the 180-day review produced - [[Executive Order 14203]] — the ICC sanctions order, signed two days later - [[US Treaty and Organization Withdrawal Timeline]] — the full sequence - [[UNRWA]] · [[World Health Organization]] · [[United Nations]] - [[Project 2025]] — the policy blueprint - [[International Law Hub]] — the folder MOC