State Department Threatens Aid Cuts to Pressure ICC Member States to Withdraw

Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched a formal campaign on July 13, 2026, to dismantle the International Criminal Court by pressuring its 125-plus member states. The State Department plans to deploy sanctions, travel bans, and visa revocations against countries that rely on US assistance and refuse to abandon the court. This escalates beyond prior sanctions on individual ICC officials, directly targeting treaty memberships and testing whether European and aid-dependent nations will abandon Rome Statute commitments under US pressure.