The New American
The Trump administration has no intention of letting the UN collapse under the weight of its bloat and uselessness. Moreover, the government funding package President Donald Trump signed into law last week includes an increase of hundreds of millions in funding for the Education Department.
The United States government will soon give billions of dollars in unpaid member dues to the UN, which is — nay, was — on the brink of “financial collapse,” according to comments UN Secretary-General António Guterres made in late January. According to Reuters, the United States “will make an initial payment towards the billions of dollars it owes to the United Nations in a matter of weeks.” U.S. ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said this during a phone interview. “You’ll certainly see an initial tranche of money very shortly,” he told Reuters. “It’ll be a significant … down payment on our annual dues…. I don’t believe that the ultimate figure is decided, but it’ll be in a matter of weeks.”
The government funding bill Trump just signed “includes $3.1 billion for U.S. dues to the U.N. and other international organizations,” Reuters pointed out.
Guterres wrote in a letter dated January 28 that the UN was on the brink of “imminent financial collapse.” The major reason was member states’ refusal to pay their dues. And at the top of that list was the United States. According to reports, “U.N. officials say more than 95 percent of what is owed to the regular U.N. budget is owed by the United States,” and “the U.S. also owes another $2.4 billion for current and past peace-keeping missions and $43.6 million for U.N. tribunals.”
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