The problem is the UN is largely our own creation. That it has been twisted into something else beyond its intent is the big problem.
If we want to change this dynamic it is not up to the congress but to the people.
Um, sorry no it's not. If it were, Foreign Aid would have been instituted on a regular basis before the 20th century, which in fact it was not. I realize progressives such as yourself, in fact the whole of the Republican party, chooses to invent new powers as needed but...
Foreign aid is a system by which the American taxpayers are forced, in the name of national security or defense of the “free world,” or charity, or whatever the politicians tell us, to subsidize US export companies and prop up client states that are often ruled by dictators.Constitutionally, of course, none of this spending is authorized. The US Constitution was written under what is referred to as “positive grant.” In short, what this means is that the federal government is authorized to engage in only those activities specifically authorized by the Constitution. Positive = authorized activities. Grant = specifically listed.
Just to make sure this principle was legally codified, the Tenth Amendment was included:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
That’s the beauty of the document. it does not get into the petty details allowing for the changing needs of our nation.
Ah yes the progressive call. It's a 'living breathing document'. It means what we say it means. Sad to see the party of conservatives has fallen so far. You want to throw your tax dollars away, go for it. As for me, I'll have mine back thank you very much. I could use them much better than for the US government to fund another tin pot dictator