[AnotherUnixGeek]

preparing executive orders to fundamentally change the U.S. role

I applaud the move to stop pumping US tax dollars into the corrupt UN, but let's be clear - executive orders can't fundamentally change the US role. What one president does, the next president can undo. The next Democrat back in the Oval Office will restore UN funding - the next RINO back in the Oval Office will, too. For fundamental change, we need the GOP in Congress to do it's job and pass legislation mandating how much the US will contribute and how it is to be spent.

[Mollypitcher1]

It takes a leader to show them the way.

[MrEdd]

The veracity of that statement relies in its entirety upon the unproven and extremely questionable assumption that even deprived of United States money and military participation there will still be a functional United Nations eight years from now.

I see an entirely different future.

I see Europe, the Middle East, most of Africa, and part of South America at war for much of the interim and uninterested in the flaccid pontificating shell of the UN by 2025.

[Cobra64]

For immediate, short term effect, use EOs. Then Congress can do whatever is necessary to make it permanent.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

"For fundamental change, we need the GOP in Congress to do it's job and pass legislation mandating how much the US will contribute and how it is to be spent getting the UN out of the US and getting the US out of the UN."

Fixed it for you.

[The Westerner]

“...What one president does, the next president can undo. The next Democrat back in the Oval Office will restore UN funding - the next RINO back in the Oval Office will, too. For fundamental change, we need the GOP in Congress to do it’s job...”

Too true. It will be a test of this Congress to see if they send legislation to be signed into law by this President. They have at the least two years, maybe four, and if the country isn’t outraged by the Republicans, maybe more.

Perhaps the thousands upon thousands of citizens who showed up for rallies will contact their Congressmen putting the pressure on them?

[Piranha]

You are right, of course, but it is a good and fast start. It will take Congress time to ramp up; good legislation is made slowly and after debate, and by changing things based on an executive order program, President Trump is making it possible for Congress to legislate in areas in which executive orders can’t accomplish what he wants.

We are five days into his term, and I am not worried about another President in 4 or 8 years changing things back. I suspect that President Trump will have succeeded in changing the American culture to the point that relatively quickly Congress will ratify his decisions.

[Ymani Cricket]

Agree

[dragnet2]

I applaud the move to stop pumping US tax dollars into the corrupt UN, but let's be clear - executive orders can't fundamentally change the US role.

What role is that?