State Department declares 'international bureaucracies' will no longer get 'blank checks' from the US

The State Department declared Saturday that the U.S. is "rejecting the outdated model of multilateralism," saying the system turned American taxpayers into "the world's underwriter for a sprawling architecture of global governance." 

Additionally, it said that President Donald Trump's recent order withdrawing the U.S. from 66 international organizations showed that "the era of writing blank check to international bureaucracies is over."

The move marks the latest in Trump’s broader...