Posted on 02/20/2025 2:43:02 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Republican lawmakers have launched an effort to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations, amid concern that the international humanitarian and human rights organization fails to promote American interests and align with President Donald Trump’s "America First" agenda.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced legislation Thursday called the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle Act of 2025, which would terminate U.S. membership in the U.N. and its affiliated bodies, and funding to those groups. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is co-sponsoring the measure in the upper chamber.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is poised to introduce the measure in the House Friday, claiming that the U.N. and its bodies don’t advance the interests of Americans.
"The United Nations has devolved into a platform for tyrants and a venue to attack America and her allies," Lee said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. "We should stop paying for it. As President Trump revolutionizes our foreign policy by putting America first, we should withdraw from this sham organization and prioritize real alliances that keep our country safe and prosperous."
The U.S. provides more funding than any other country to the U.N., donating more than $18 billion in 2022, according to the U.S. foreign policy think tank the Council on Foreign Relations. That makes up roughly a third of the U.N.’s entire collective budget.
"The United Nations has enjoyed American tax money while often undermining our interests, attacking our allies and bolstering our adversaries," Roy said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital.
"What has the United Nations achieved?" Roy said. "Despite all of the money and the attention, this corrupt globalist organization has, for decades, failed to prevent wars, genocides, human rights violations and even pandemics."
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Yes!!!!!
Agree on all counts.
Right. But if we leave it does the UN even continue as a functional organization?
Are we becoming an isolationist nation?
Don’t forget to get the UN out of the US.
Now were cooking with oil!
The UN Building would be the perfect location for the Trump Library.
IMHO it’s a dysfunctional mess right now of fraud, waste, abuse, and spying. I can’t think of anything good it has done without screwing it up.
The DEFUND Act... that's hilarious!
or start by making every country pay the same dues and not 1 country paying 90% of the UN’s budget
Herbert Lom was so funny as Dreyfus.
It’s almost like Christmas morning everyday these days.
No. We trade with most anyone.
I hope so.
I LIKE it!
PDJT Trade School
Just move it out of the US. Establish a League of Democracies with the US having the ability to add/remove members. Liberal trade policies and have nothing to do with the s—tholes.
Thank you for mentioning that.
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