Alex Newman
The dictator-dominated United
Nations is in a panic, claiming that it will be “impossible” for it to continue
its allegedly “essential work” under budget cuts outlined in President Donald
Trump's proposed budget for next year. While the proposed cuts to U.S. taxpayer
funding of the UN are not quite the 50 percent rollbacks previously discussed by the administration,
the decreased budget could nevertheless play a significant role in reiningin the out-of-control UN. All funding for UN “global warming” schemes, for instance, would be slashed. However,
globalists in Congress and the establishment media are already howling,
ensuring a battle awaits ahead as the UN meddles more and more in U.S. affairs.
The Trump administration
Fiscal Year 2018 budget, dubbed “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” includes
relatively modest cuts of about 33 percent, or $19 billion, to a wide range of
global programs including unconstitutional foreign aid, U.S. diplomacy, and UN
schemes. One goal, officials told reporters, was to force other governments to
pay a larger share of the UN burden. There are three primary options to put the
cuts into effect: Reduce the level of funding for international organizations'
budgets, reduce assessment rates on how much is demanded of U.S. taxpayers by
the UN, and if necessary, unilaterally refuse to pay what the UN outfits
demand.
Among the specific saving for
U.S. taxpayers would be a reduction of around $1.2 billion in spending, or
half, on the UN's brutal “peacekeeping” military, which has become infamous for raping thousands of women and children around the world with absolute impunity. Trump is hoping to cap U.S. contributions to the
UN's scandal-plagued “peace” military, which has a long history of brutality and mass murder, at about 25 percent.
However, with a massive budget and some 16 countries under UN military
occupation, the UN's infamous “blue helmets” will still be able to inflict
enormous damage on their victims around the world. In just one town in the
Ivory Coast occupied by UN forces, a survey showed that eight out of 10
underage girls admitted to being raped by UN troops.
But the cuts go beyond the UN's
predatory military forces. A funding cut of 44 percent for other international
organizations and UN schemes is also proposed as part of the Trump plan drafted
by budget chief Mick Mulvaney, who called it the “Taxpayers First” budget. For
example, the budget proposal requests close to $1 billion in funds for an
account used to fund the UN's regular budget. That is a decrease of more than
30 percent from the 2017 levels approved by the Republican Congress under
globalist former President Barack Obama. In addition, Trump is requesting a
budget of zero dollars for the “International Organizations and Programs”
account, another federal slush fund used to hand American tax dollars to UN
schemes.
Under Trump's budget, the UN's
increasingly discredited “global warming” scheming would be completely
defunded. While Obama illegally promised billions of U.S. tax dollars to the UN
and Third World dictators under the guise of “climate change,” and did illegally transfer some money, Trump's budget does away with all of
that. Both the Green Climate (slush) Fund, or GCF, and the Global Climate
Change Initiative, would receive zero U.S. tax dollars. Trump has still not
fulfilled his key campaign promise of canceling the UN's “Paris Agreement” pseudo-treaty on climate, but the lack of funds will
severely hamper the scheme. A decision on the Paris regime is expected soon.
When it comes to the UN and
other international organizations, the proposed budget seeks to “reduce or end
direct funding to international organizations whose missions do not
substantially advance U.S. foreign policy interests, are duplicative, or are
not well-managed.” But even domestic bureaucracies used to shower U.S. tax
dollars on foreign regimes, dictators, leftwing activists, and globalist schemes
would face cuts under the Trump budget. For instance, the proposed budget for
the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
would be cut by around 32 percent to $38 billion, down from almost $55 billion
in 2017.
While the tone is clear, the
budget did not contain many details or specifics on how steep the cuts would or
should be to each particular UN scheme. Instead, the proposal calls for a
strategic review that will determine where to cut while maintaining U.S.
“national interests,” with a priority on propping up organs that “most directly
support U.S. national security interests.” There is also a special emphasis on
cutting off funds “for organizations that work against U.S. foreign policy
interests.” As regular readers of this magazine know well, virtually every
single UN agency works against American interests. In fact, many UN agencies
brazenly work against even the U.S. Constitution and the God-given rights it
protects.
The UN and its allied swamp
creatures in Congress and the establishment media are already gearing up for
battle. Indeed, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the
former leader of the Socialist International alliance that includes many
political parties responsible for murdering millions, sounded almost hysterical
while meddling in the U.S. budget debate. “The figures presented would simply
make it impossible for the UN to continue all of its essential work advancing
peace, development, human rights and humanitarian assistance,” said Stephane
Dujarric, the spokesman for the controversial UN boss.
Last month, Trump changed his tone some on the UN. After previously blasting the UN as an
enemy of freedom and the United States that was trying to fleece the American
people with its climate “hoax,” Trump sounded more amenable to the UN and its
agenda. In fact, his comments were seen to be pro-UN by some officials, with the
president even appearing to look favorably on giving the UN power to settle
disputes among nations and more. However, he did emphasize that the U.S. share
of the cost was not fair, and that the organization should be reformed.
Picking up on those themes,
the UN boss' spokesman suggested Guterres, the Big Government-loving advocate
of mass immigration, was on the same page as Trump when it came to making the
UN more efficient. “The Secretary-General is totally committed to reforming the
United Nations,” Dujarric was quoted as saying by Reuters and other
establishment media outlets. “We stand ready to discuss with the United States
and any other member state how best we can create a more cost-effective
organization to pursue our shared goals and values.”
At the U.S. State Department,
bureaucrats — the overwhelming majority of whom lean Democrat and support
globalism — sounded like Guterres. “I think there’s a recognition that these
rates of assessment are often determined by these organizations, despite the fact
that the U.S., in many cases, believes that other nations should be paying a
larger, more equitable share consistent with either their economic status or
the benefits that they accrue from those organizations,” State Department
budget and planning director Doug Pitkin was quoted as saying. “So we’re also
looking to these organizations to implement reforms, to lower costs, and
deliver greater results.”
It is true that American
taxpayers are the largest financiers of the UN — by far. U.S. taxpayers (and creditors)
paid more than $10 billion to the UN, its disgraced “peace” troops, and its
perpetually expanding array of bureaucracies, agencies, programs, and more.
Americans pay between a third and a fourth of the UN's budget — more than 185
other nations, combined, and more than the next biggest three financiers
combined. The “assessed contributions,” or, put in plain English, the amount of
tribute the UN purports to require from Americans, are established by the UN
General Assembly. However, with appropriations coming from Congress, the UN has
no power to enforce its demands.
Unfortunately for American
taxpayers, who voted for Trump's anti-globalist campaign and voted to put
Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress, establishment-minded GOP
leaders and Democrats have already indicated that they do not support “drastic”
cuts. Globalist Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, ostensibly
a Republican, was quoted in the Washington Examiner in March
saying that Trump's proposed cuts to the UN budget would “probably not” be able
to get through Congress. While he dishonestly tried to blame Democrats, the
Kentucky senator also admitted that he “personally” supports the bloated
“diplomatic portion of the federal budget.”
Of course, while slashing the
UN's budget may be a good start, it is not nearly enough to protect America,
liberty, and self-government from the dictators club and the globalist
establishment behind it. Instead, Americans must demand that Congress approve
the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193). In addition to ending U.S.
membership in the UN, the bill would cancel all U.S. participation in UN schemes
and treaties. It would also evict the UN's headquarters — infested with spies,
terrorists, and dictators — from U.S. soil. And as the UN has made clear,
nothing less will ensure the protection of American liberty and
self-government.
Alex Newman is a
correspondent for The New American, covering economics, education, politics, and more. He
can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com. Follow
him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU or on Facebook. 26-5-2017
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