Posted on 01/26/2017 12:11:59 PM PST by drewh
Trump’s new administration are set to review US involvement in international treaties and agreements and could cut United Nations (UN) funding by 40 per cent – putting aid and peacekeeping operations across the world in jeopardy.
Speaking on Newsnight, New York Times analyst Max Fisher said the White House is mulling over two executive orders which would see a massive reduction in US involvement with international partners on a range of issues.
The order would mandate a 40 per cent cut in all US funding towards the United Nations, any UN agency, or any other international organisation which would amount to billions of dollars Max Fisher He said: “There are two executive orders that are in draft form that are circulating the White House now that they are currently planning to sign by the end of the week.
“The first one would review a huge subset of multilateral treaties that the United States is currently engaged in - it’s not really clear which of those treaties they have in mind but it looks like it opens up climate agreements and environmental agreements… to be abrogated.
“The second, and in some ways bigger one, is reviewing funding for the United Nations and this draft executive order, if signed, would do two things.
“First, it would terminate any US funding for any UN agency that needs a subset of conditions [including] any support for abortion programs; there are a few rules that are very vague - if it includes help for countries that opposed the United States then they would cut funding [although] no one really knows what that means.”
He continued: “But once they’ve done that, then the order would mandate a 40 per cent cut in all US funding towards the United Nations, any UN agency, or any other international organisation which would amount to billions of dollars.
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With the US involved in UN peacekeeping operations in 16 countries worldwide, including Cyprus, Lebanon and Mali.
Mr Fisher believes the US could significantly reduce its contribution to the UNBBC Mr Fisher believes the US could significantly reduce its contribution to the UN Mr Fisher believes these places “aren’t really in a great position to have UN peacekeepers leave suddenly because the United States no longer wishes to be part of the United Nations fully.
“The United States funds 27 per cent of UN peacekeeping operations, a lot of aid to refugees - these are programs that are already stretched extremely thin.”
In terms of climate change, the Fisher believes the Paris Climate Agreement “would be in the crosshairs” following Trump’s scepticism during his election campaign.
Fisher added: “It’s not unreasonable to expect him to use this as a mechanism to withdraw from it”.
That does it. Starting today I’m posting The Daily Win.
“Trump’s new administration are set to review US involvement in international treaties and agreements and could cut United Nations (UN) funding by 40 per cent”
It’s a start.
I want one of those.
This pace is utterly insane. Not even a week in office. People are going to wonder what the hell previous presidents were doing all this time. When Obama comes back to DC from his latest “vacation”, I bet he keeps his head down. He’s going to look like an idiot if he criticizes a man who got more accomplished in a week than he did in eight years.
This needs to be codified into law. Congress was derelict in allowing such things to continue, but we’re paying for it.
Loving Trump!!!
I.
Love.
This.
Man!
I’m up to friggin here in winning...
...and loving every minute of it.
NY Times Analyst Mark Fisher can go #### himself.
The 14 or whatever Un peacekeeping missions going on right now, I would bet, are close to or utterly worthless.
But if the other Un countries believe they are so important, they can make up for our TWENTY SEVEN PERCENT of the tab.
I am feeling light headed from all the winning. I need to catch my breath.
Oh, wow! Every day is like Christmas! Go, Trump! MAGA!!
Great thanks!
You better make that The Daily Win's at the rate this is going. Good luck keeping up! LOL
A cumulative list of positive actions will be an antidote to the tense countdown thread (which we missed the zerO day of sadly due to FR being down.)
someone PLEASE start a running list of all the great things Trump has done !
I will help upkeep it
Not even close! But it’s a distinct improvement over the past regime.
40% !!!
Why not go the whole way and withdraw totally?
Then it’d be 100%.
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