After the Biden administration withheld funding to the agency, saying it had lost confidence in its ability to police elite athletes, WADA removed the United States from its board.

The U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.6 million due to the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2024, making good on a long-running threat anchored in unhappiness with the global watchdog’s handling of cases involving Chinese swimmers and others.

The U.S. government has withheld its annual financial contribution to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), ratcheting up tensions between U.S. stakeholders and WADA over the anti-doping organization's effectiveness and transparency.

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) says it “fully supports” the US government’s decision to withhold a $3.625 million payment to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that was due on December 31, 2024.

Tensions between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and US authorities have now escalated, after the US government defaulted on its 2024 contribution to the global body's annual budget. The US missed a final deadline of December 31 last year by which to make a contribution payment of $3.