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The White House has instructed the State Department to look for ways to slash over half of U.S. funding for the United Nations, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. Three sources told the outlet that the State Department is eyeing cuts to programs that fund peacekeeping missions, peace talks, vaccinations for children, and nuclear weapons monitoring in so-called rogue states like North Korea. The State Department currently spends approximately $10 billion in annual U.N. funding. The White House has signaled major cuts to the department, and is expected to slash approximately 37 percent of State Department funding in its upcoming 2018 budget proposal. United Nations officials told Foreign Policy that the loss of U.S. funding would leave a sizable budget gap, which other member nations would struggle to fill.
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Report: WH Looks to Slash UN Funding by 50% (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2017
OP
Defense and war. The only thing that will be saved are tax cuts for the ultra rich. nt
Blue_true
Mar 2017
#7
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. NWO
This should not be surprising that Trump's policies reflects his far right, paranoid, conspiracy theorist character. The UN has been a boogeyman of far right for decades and the New World Order conspiracy and racist theories.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. Putin wants the UN gone, so stay tuned, it will be soon.
caroldansen
(725 posts)3. Who gets all the money their cutting from all those things?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)7. Defense and war. The only thing that will be saved are tax cuts for the ultra rich. nt
MineralMan
(146,195 posts)4. Conservatives have wanted the UN gone for
as long as I can remember. I remember signs saying "US out of UN" since the late 1950s. It's a right wing Republican dream.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)5. Big mistake to do this.
spanone
(135,645 posts)6. the party of no empathy.
heartless bastards