Posted on 06/30/2025 6:14:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A UN conference to boost support for global development aid begins on Monday as US funding cuts jeopardise the fight against poverty.
But key player the United States is snubbing the biggest such talks in a decade, underlining the erosion of international cooperation on combating hunger, disease and climate change.
UN sustainable development goals set for 2030 are slipping from reach just as the world's wealthiest countries are withdrawing funding for development programmes.
President Donald Trump's gutting of the US development agency USAID is the standout example, with Germany, Britain and France among other rich economies making cuts when faced with competing priorities such as defence.
Disruption to global trade from Trump's tariffs and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have dealt further blows to the diplomatic cohesion necessary for concentrating efforts on helping countries escape poverty.
Painstaking talks in New York in June produced a common declaration to be adopted in Seville that only went ahead after the United States walked out.
The document reaffirms commitment to the UN development goals such as eliminating poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality, reforming tax systems and international financial institutions.
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If it really is a crisis, which I do not believe it is, it’s an indication that these countries have been suckling on the United States tit instead of feeding themselves.
And the sense of entitlement that they are owed everything they want by the United States is incredible and sickening. It’s also our fault that it came to be.
Yup, time for the EU pull their own weight and stop expecting Americans to underwrite their socialism.
The grift is over - whatever shall we do?!?!?
The USA had to borrow the $30 million in “aid” that was given to Gaza. That money will go directly to HAMAS, to be used in the killing of Israelis while the Gazans starve.
I don’t care if the money is for de-worming orphans. If it filtered through leftists who steal 88% to enrich themselves and support their causes it is still immoral and wrong.
Put another way leftists with money and power will do much greater harm to the world than a natural parasite.
“...underlining the erosion of international cooperation on [lining the pockets of grifters!]”
Fixed! MAGA, FIRST, LAST and ALWAYS!
https://www.cato.org/blog/us-funding-united-nations
...the US paid 28 percent ($13.0 billion) of the $46.4 billion of UN member government funding in 2023...
...The Congressional Research Service said that due to budget complexity, there is no “one number” that represents total US funding of the UN.
But the number would seem to be the $13.0 billion, plus an unknown amount of US funding in the “other” category. As an example of other funding, the US is a funder of the World Bank, which gave the UN $1.5 billion in 2023...
That may be so, but 50% makes its way back to the left and DNC. That's how the machine washes the money. From the US Treasury, to Abroad, to right in the pockets of the Beltway NGO'S run by spouses, spawn, friends, and relatives of American Bureaucrats.
It's not enough: It's never enough.
Hilarious. The rotten POS’s got their pacifier tossed into the dumpster.
Go suck an egg Europe. Ya mean we have to pay for our socialism now? LOL
And they had fun, fun, fun ‘til their daddy took their funding away.
Maybe Burkina Faso and Upper Volta will step up.
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Why is it the American taxpayers have to pay for all of the far-left, money-grabbing scams? Time for the “world leaders” and the UN to put their money where their big mouths are. It’s somebody else’s turn to “fight poverty.” We’ve already got 50 million freeloading parasites from all over the world feeding off of the United States of America. Enough is enough. That crap is getting old.
How much did it cost their taxpayers to send them there?
The UN is full of Leeches that take and never give
Hey, Seville - there’s a new barber in town.
Without the USAID money, UN bureaucrats may have to travel coach and stay at 3-star hotels.
This has got to be one of the easiest no brainer cuts we can make.
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