White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations

[Madmallard]

tate Department staffers have been instructed to seek cuts in excess of 50 percent in U.S. funding for U.N. programs, signaling an unprecedented retreat by President Donald Trump’s administration from international operations that keep the peace, provide vaccines for children, monitor rogue nuclear weapons programs, and promote peace talks from Syria to Yemen, according to three sources.

The push for such draconian measures comes as the White House is scheduled on Thursday to release its 2018 budget proposal, which is expected to include cuts of up to 37 percent for spending on the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign assistance programs, including the U.N., in next year’s budget. The United States spends about $10 billion a year on the United Nations.

It remains unclear whether the full extent of the steeper U.N. cuts will be reflected in the 2018 budget, which will be prepared by the White House Office of Management and Budget, or whether, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has proposed, the cuts would be phased in over the coming three years. One official close to the Trump administration said Tillerson has been given flexibility to decide how the cuts would be distributed.

White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations

 

[MothMan]

It's time to get the UN out of the US. Perhaps they could relocate to Moscow or Tripoli.

 

[Jezman]

Be like Nikey, just do it

 

[MoMan]

If the U.N. is such a "worthy cause", perhaps some other countries will step up to the plate to cover the loss of U.S. taxpayer funding!!

I just checked, here's what it costs us to the leeches:
(SOURCE:America, we pay way too much for the United Nations )
Each year the United States gives approximately $8 billion in mandatory payments and voluntary contributions to the United Nations and its affiliated organizations. The biggest portion of this money – about $3 billion this year – goes to the U.N.'s regular and peacekeeping budgets.

Ridiculous! I say we tell them to pound salt!

 

[Mr. terzmo]

Move it to France...with all the other cone heads......About time this happened....

 

[minderasr]

 

[Catskillkid]

Perhaps the most useless organization in the world. I say drop it like it's hot. Either other countries pony up or let it fall to the wayside. Since when has the UN done anything constructive ever?

 

[Deplorable Me]

A good start. The US is nothing more than a welfare tit for that pro-socialism collective.