White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations
Source: Foreign Policy
State 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 Trumps 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 years 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.
On March 9 in New York, U.S. diplomats in a closed-door meeting warned key U.N. members, including wealthy donors from Europe, Japan, and South Korea, to expect a big financial constraint on U.S. spending at the United Nations, said one European diplomat. There are rumors of big cuts to the State Department budget, but again, on our side, no figures, the diplomat said.
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INdemo
(6,994 posts)As long as we have Russian assets and traitors running our country,
the entire world is screwed along with most Americans.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)more money for the war machine
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)of NATO while cutting the U.S. financial contribution to the United Nations.
The cut in funding to UN programs can't help Nikki Haley do her job.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)And "fair share" is a bullshit term as well...republicans are expecting countries to contribute a share disproportionate to the size of their economy.
More importantly, the amounts being discussed are insignificant to the budget overall when compared to the effects it has toward peace and stability in the world.
2018 cannot come soon enough...
packman
(16,296 posts)Kinda expected this -
Botany
(70,581 posts)Darn Tootin' I'm Working For Putin.
DK504
(3,847 posts)BLOTUS doesn't seem to understand Camaroon doesn't have the same GDP as America and thinks they should pay the same rate as we do.
Damn this people are craving a bigger international crisis.