Withdraw from treaties pending in the Senate for 20 years or more
What the document says“The next Administration should also move to withdraw from treaties that have been under Senate consideration for 20 years or more”
The chapter reasons that such treaties are unlikely to be ratified. It adds that where ratification of an old treaty still serves the national interest, the letter of transmittal should be updated for current circumstances rather than withdrawn.
What the document actually says“The next Administration should also move to withdraw from treaties that have been under Senate consideration for 20 years or more”
Some treaties have sat in the Senate for 20 years. The next team should pull out of those.
A treaty can wait years for a Senate vote. Some have waited over twenty. The book says those will never pass. It says to withdraw from them.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The memorandum withdraws the United States from organizations and conventions it belongs to, selected for being contrary to United States interests. The chapter asks for something different: withdrawing from the Senate's consideration treaties that have sat there for 20 years or more, a test of how long a treaty has waited rather than of its merits. The memorandum does not address pending treaties or letters of transmittal. Executive Order 14155 likewise withdraws from a body the United States belongs to, the World Health Organization. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.