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UN Could Run Out Of Cash Within Months
Daily Caller News Foundation. ^ | May 03, 2025 | John Oyewale

Posted on 05/03/2025 5:12:28 PM PDT by george76

The United Nations could become unable to pay its staff and suppliers by September and its peacekeepers by mid-2025, following an outsized projected deficit and a leaked White House proposal to end funding for the intergovernmental body,..

The U.N.’s $200 million deficit in 2024 is measly compared to the $1.1 billion deficit the organization is projected to incur at the end of 2025, barring any budget cuts, .. The deficit reportedly will hobble the organization’s ability to pay salaries and suppliers by September.

The U.N. is billed to inform its member states Saturday that its $3.7 billion budget intended to help it avoid default had already been slashed by 17%,.. The U.N. reportedly will pause hiring new staff because of the cuts. U.N. peacekeepers risk becoming unpaid by mid-2025, Secretary-General António Guterres warned in February

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Stringent budget rules and defaulting member states have left the U.N. cash strapped. A leaked Trump administration memo proposing to stop the U.S. from making mandatory contributions to the U.N. could bankrupt the body, ..

The leaked April memo proposed an end to U.S. funding of the U.N. and its peacekeeping missions, as well as NATO and 20 other organizations. Also proposed were a 54% cut in U.S. humanitarian aid and a 55% cut in global health funding, according to the Washington Post. Congressional approval over the proposal reportedly remains to be seen.

President Donald Trump also signed an executive order Feb. 4 to withdraw U.S. membership of the U.N. and review the nation’s involvement in various international organizations.

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U.N. mandatory dues — apportioned to member states based on the relative sizes of their economies — sustain the U.N.’s core functions, including General Assembly meetings, peacekeeping and human-rights monitoring,..

Late payments by some member states and shirking by others contributed to the funding crisis. Only 49 out of the U.N.’s 193 member states paid their mandatory dues on time in 2025.

The world’s two largest economies — the U.S. and China — are also the U.N.’s two largest contributors, with each contributing about 20% of the organization’s overall funding.

China, however, has begun to fall behind on payments,


TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20250204; 202504; 202509; china; communism; leakedmemo; mandatorydues; membershipdues; nomoremoney; ohnoesanyway; thatsashame; tinyviolins; un; unitednations; untiednations; us; whatashame
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To: KittyKares

Big Sad Face.


21 posted on 05/03/2025 5:25:59 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: george76

22 posted on 05/03/2025 5:26:15 PM PDT by Allegra ( Thank you. I appreciate the analogical parallelism.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

US OUT OF UN
UN OUT OF US


23 posted on 05/03/2025 5:26:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: george76
UN Could Run Out Of Cash Within Months

They could pay their Blue Helmets with Young Children.

24 posted on 05/03/2025 5:27:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: george76

Oh, yes—please!


25 posted on 05/03/2025 5:29:33 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: george76

Those UN grifters will loot all the liquor from the bar in the restaurant.


26 posted on 05/03/2025 5:31:23 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Thank You Rush

Just imagine how bad it would be if the U.N. wasn’t keeping the peace!


27 posted on 05/03/2025 5:31:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: george76

Why does this always happen when we give lawyers and professional politicians, sorry, I’m repeating myself, blank checks and unlimited credit cards?


28 posted on 05/03/2025 5:33:03 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: MayflowerMadam
Dancing In The Streets
29 posted on 05/03/2025 5:36:20 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: george76
White House proposal to end funding for the intergovernmental body

When did the United States of America go full retard? We've been giving billions to a bunch of stinking grifters who absolutely hate the USA and want to destroy us. They also hate our second amendment as is evidenced by the gun with bent barrel on their lawn.

Get those mongrels out of the USA and get the USA out of the UN.

30 posted on 05/03/2025 5:37:20 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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To: george76
As always with the UN, this classic:
31 posted on 05/03/2025 5:38:03 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: george76

Good. Let it die.


32 posted on 05/03/2025 5:38:04 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: george76

More winning.


33 posted on 05/03/2025 5:38:10 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: george76

That’d be a gosh darn shame.


34 posted on 05/03/2025 5:40:20 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: george76

I wonder why it hasn’t run out of money sooner?


35 posted on 05/03/2025 5:43:45 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: george76

Let Soros foot the bill.


36 posted on 05/03/2025 5:44:41 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: george76

Yes, please-that would be just wonderful-it is just a useless debating club with astronomical membership fees, populated by mostly socialists and criminals from abroad. I’m sure NYC can find a better-and profitable-commercial use for the buildings, too-maybe retrofit for high dollar condos/apts-with some upscale shops at street level?

Where has the UN done any successful peacekeeping? I haven’t heard about that...


37 posted on 05/03/2025 5:44:56 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
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To: george76

More winning!


38 posted on 05/03/2025 5:48:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: KittyKares

And the rest of us.


39 posted on 05/03/2025 5:49:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: tennmountainman

Very.


40 posted on 05/03/2025 5:49:15 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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