Legal authority for him to do so is 22 USC 290c. I’m not saying he is right or wrong. NPR had a rushed article out earlier swearing he lacked any legal authority.
We only withdrew from UNESCO twice in its history. There is unfortunate precedent for doing this to a U.N. system agency. We were about to inflict it on the Universal Postal Union too but that got stopped at the last minute.
We only withdrew from UNESCO twice in its history. There is unfortunate precedent for doing this to a U.N. system agency. We were about to inflict it on the Universal Postal Union too but that got stopped at the last minute.