Posted on 10/10/2019 10:59:43 AM PDT by robowombat
TRUMP is making good on his promise to cut billions from UN funding…and the UN is squealing like a stuck pig OCTOBER 10, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM
Now the UN Secretary General is begging for money. Perhaps he should hit up all the other United Nations member states that regularly fall short on their required annual financial contributions, figuring that the United States will be there to take up the slack.
Breitbart The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October unless world governments immediately meet their financial obligations.
The United States is by far the U.N.’s biggest financial contributor, providing 22 percent of its operating budget and funding 28 percent of peacekeeping missions, which currently cost $8 billion annually.
In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the U.N. secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said unspecified, “additional stop-gap measures” would have to be taken to ensure salaries and entitilements are met.
These might include holding fewer (unnecessary) meetings and cutting back on (unnecessary) travel and associated entitlements.
“Member States have paid only 70 per cent of the total amount needed for our regular budget operations in 2019. This translates into a cash shortage of $230 million at the end of September. We run the risk of depleting our backup liquidity reserves by the end of the month,” he wrote.
Donald Trump has long pushed for reform of the U.N. and just last week warned the “future does not belong to globalists” in a warning to the organization’s leaders.
In December 2017 Nikki Haley, the then United States Ambassador to the organization, announced the federal government had reduced its contribution to the U.N.’s annual budget by $285 million, as Breitbart News reported.
Haley’s statement came after the U.N. voted to condemn the United States for President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The resolution, backed by nations with long records of extreme human rights abuses, passed 128-9. Haley immediately responded by threatening to reduce America’s U.N. funding.
“We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world’s largest contribution to the United Nations and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.”
Kick the UN out of the USA, have it go off to some 3rd world dump. Stop funding it entirely. Let it die, it is worthless anyway.
ditto
The UN owns a very nice facility in Geneva named the ‘Palace of the League of Nations’
I always wondered why we support a agency that hates us.
Raze that building in NYC to the ground. Sell the land for honest, value producing, commercial development.
HOORAY Chief
DEFUND UNaccountable bureaucracies, foreign and domestic.
This is a serious problem for the UN, yet for some reason I had to smile and then laugh at their misfortune.
As far as the UN financial situation is concerned, don’t they have a line of credit with some banks somewhere?
The only thing the UN offers of value is our Security Council veto right.
We could ask the UK or France to use their veto.
Israel has about 350 possible vetos of its own I believe.
Reduce the mother’s milk of money.
Collect the fines for parking violations.
Restrict the travel.
I believe the Rockefellers bought the land and gave it to the UN.
It would fetch a handsome price nowadays.
Might as just withdraw from the UN now. If we’re in arears for two years we lose our vote anyway. Why wait?
Kick the UN out of the USA, have it go off to some 3rd world dump. Stop funding it entirely. Let it die, it is worthless anyway.
Like San Franfeces. Hey, that’s where it started anyway. It would be just like going home for them!
AMEN!
Yay!!!
Maybe we can give California to the UN
More winning!
I agree. US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
I remember Ronald Reagan telling the UN to not let the door hit them on the way out.
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