Report: Trump Commands State Department to Slash UN Funding in Half – IOTW Report

Report: Trump Commands State Department to Slash UN Funding in Half

Breitbart: President Donald Trump has instructed the State Department to slash its $10 billion budget for funding United Nations programs by as much as 50 percent, Foreign Policy is reporting.

The article said the move is “signaling an unprecedented retreat by [the] administration from international operations that keep the peace, provide vaccines for children, monitor rogue nuclear weapons programs, and promote peace talks from Syria to Yemen.”

FP used three unnamed sources for its report, which also called Trump’s directive “draconian measures” taken ahead of the planned release on Thursday of his 2018 federal budget proposal.

The budget “is expected to include cuts of up to 37 percent for spending on the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign assistance programs, including the U.N., in next year’s budget,” according to the report, which went on:

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16 Comments on Report: Trump Commands State Department to Slash UN Funding in Half

  1. FP: “U.S. retreat from U.N. could mark a “breakdown of the international humanitarian system as we know it.””

    What a bunch of bullshit. You mean the “humanitarian system” that has turned its back on Israel?

    FU FP

  2. The Humanitarian system that imports rapists with blue helmets to terrorize the rural women? There’s a reason I drew blue helmets on all my long range targets
    I hope their first complaint is that they can’t afford the rent in NY anymore and have to move

  3. And how about the reduction in corruption, incompetence, ineffectiveness, bribery,
    stealing from other countries, cost overruns, payments under the table, internal corruption, frightfully overpaid ministers, two multibillion-dollar headquarters, the list is endless.

  4. I would withdraw the entire about and give them the cost of renting the building. And if this didn’t shape up the UN then I would sell the building and develop it into condo’s.

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