Despite America’s $17.5 trillion in debt, President Obama wants to funnel even more of your tax dollars to the United Nations. Is this really what he should be doing with the funding he slashed from the military budget?
When U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday, the panel will consider a budget request for international organizations that is 33 percent bigger than last year’s, including a 43 percent hike in U.S. contributions to peacekeeping missions.The administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request for the U.N. and other organizations is $4.036 billion, up from $3.031 billion in FY2014. For contributions to peacekeeping missions, it is asking for $2.518 billion, up from $1.765 last year.
The $2.518 billion for peacekeeping amounts to 28.36 percent of the U.N.’s total peacekeeping budget. The U.S. also provides 22 percent of the separate U.N. operating budget. The U.N. has 193 member states.
According to Heritage Foundation scholar Brett Schaefer, President Clinton in 1994 signed a law setting a 25 percent cap on U.S. contributions for U.N. peacekeeping, which at the time were running at around 30 percent.
In 2000 the U.N. committed to reducing the U.S. peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent of the total and through the following decade it was gradually reduced, from 30.28 percent in 2000 to 25.96 percent in 2009. But then in 2010 it began picking up again as the administration and Congress amended U.S. law to raise the cap for specific periods.
“The U.S. should resume pressure on the U.N. to lower the U.S. peacekeeping assessment to 25 percent by refusing to pay more than this amount and tying payment of any resulting arrears to adoption by the U.N. of a maximum peacekeeping assessment of 25 percent,” Schaefer wrote in a recent brief.
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Schaefer said Congress should reject the “peacekeeping response mechanism” proposal.
“Generally, such [peacekeeping] missions take weeks or months to stand up and should be funded through transfer of existing resources, the normal budgetary process, or, if necessary, emergency supplemental appropriations,” he argued.
Source: CNS News
hell no
We should have no affiliation with the U.N. They are a participant in our demise.
Kick the U.N. out of our Country.
Tell me more about that slashed military budget. Hahahaha!
Hell no stop waste money
He has a pen and a phone.
Domestic and global redistributionist…
He should not be allowed to do any of this. Does not the Congress still have the right to deny such stupidity? Why are we still supporting the UN?, they are against so much we are for and for so much that we are against. We have insufficient money to support our own Citizens that work to provide funding for all this, and then we over spend?
It makes sick that this spineless jihadist is ruining our country. Taking funds from the military, then throwing some 5000-7000 illegals onto military bases around the country and making the military to use it reduced budget to care for them taking even more funding from our military. Eventually the bastard is going to have our military running off a pittance and there will no longer be any military to protect us then all his brethren (Isis Hamas ,al Qaeda , the brotherhood and the rest of the terror groups will have free reign to kill murder and run havock everywhere including here,
And giving the money to the UN. Only enables him to “funnel” the money to his buddies throughout the Islamic jihadist terror organization without doing it himself. The bastard is a traitor and a terrorist and has to be stopped b4 he turns into another “bin laden” and makes “Hitler” look like a joke.
One of the 5 steps to converting a country to socialism is bankrupting the country. The others are dividing the rich and the poor, gun control, government controlled healthcare and government controlled education. Sound familiar?