- Donald Trump tweeted that the UN should ‘make all Member Countries pay, not just the United States’ in order to solve its deficit crisis
- U.S. pays more than any other nation toward the UN but is delinquent in its dues to the General Assembly this year
- State Department says it will pay up sometime this fall, but Congress provided the money in January
- Every other G7 nation is current with its dues payments, as are Syria and more than 120 other countries
Donald Trump blasted the United Nations on Wednesday for what he suggested was a lax attitude toward collecting member nations’ dues, apparently unaware that the United States is delinquent in its own payments to the UN General Assembly.
The U.S. paid for about 22 per cent of all the UN’s expenses in 2017, the most recent year for which complete statistics are available. And the General Assembly – known to diplomants as UNGA – is just one part of the whole.
But while microstates like Tuvalu and poverty-stricken nations like Sierra Leone and Syria have paid what the organization considers their fair share, America is the only one of the G7 nations that hasn’t written a check in 2019.