Defund the UN
Speaking of waste and fraud, why doesn’t Trump defund the UN? It is contrary to everything Trump espouses yet he nominated Elise Stefanik, the representative from New York who was one of his staunchest backers, to be UN ambassador. What a strange way to show his gratitude. What an awful job. Why would she want to sit in a room full of pompous diplomats who hate America and are antisemitic and listen to babbling nonsense? Virtually every UN organization incorporates climate change and gender issues including transgenderism as part of their work. If Trump is defunding these activities in the states, then why send the UN $22 billion to advance this agenda internationally? And I thought Stefanik was smart.
The Wall Street Journal reported that “The International Organization for Migration lists as among its central areas of activity “gender equality,” “environmental sustainability” and “reducing global inequalities.” It sponsors programs like “Strengthening Women’s Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in El Salvador.” The U.N. Commission on Human Rights promotes a variety of transgender propaganda campaigns, such as helping Nepalese “LGBTIQ+ writers to tell their own story.” Nepalese LBGTQ writers? Who knew?
Recall that press secretary Katherine Levitt said regarding the expenditures at USAID that she did not want her tax dollars going to that crap? What about the funding of this UN crap? What about diversity, equity and inclusion being at the heart of UNFPA’s workforce? What about funding job training for gays and lesbians in Brazil? What about funding “Being LGBT in the Caribbean?” Where is DOGE on all of this? What does Stefanik think about this “crap”?
In 2023, Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced bills not only to defund the UN but to leave it as well. Lee said “No more blank checks for the United Nations. Americans’ hard-earned dollars have been funneled into initiatives that fly in the face of our values – enabling tyrants, betraying allies, and spreading bigotry,” Roy said “This year, the United Nations’ corruption, and its despicable, brazen political agenda have been on full display. From UNRWA actively protecting Hamas and acting against our ally Israel, delayed condemning Hamas, to China being elected to the “Human Rights Council,” to the propagation of climate hysteria, covering for China’s forced abortion and sterilization programs, the UN’s decades-old, internal rot once again raises the questions of why the United States is even still a member or why we’re wasting billions — indeed, $12.5 billion in 2021 — every year on it. The UN doesn’t deserve one single dime of American taxpayer money or one bit of our support; we should defund it and leave immediately.”
What is Trump’s reaction? Well on February 4, he issued the following executive order.
Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary, in consultation with the UN Ambassador, shall conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States and whether such organizations, conventions, or treaties can be reformed. Upon the conclusion of that review, the Secretary shall report the findings to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and provide recommendations as to whether the United States should withdraw from any such organizations, conventions, or treaties.
So why send Stefanik over to the UN when she is much more valuable in the House? Why not send Steve Bannon instead? That would really shake things up. Then go ahead and get out of the UN. It is a useless organization. Fund those activities that do not conflict with this country’s priorities and goals out of the State Department. Evict them from New York. They belong in Brussels anyway.
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