President Donald Trump’s administration has begun making payments to the United Nations that the globalist body has demanded from the United States.
The Associated Press reports:
The United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes the United Nations, the U.N. said [February 19], and President Donald Trump promised more money to the financially strapped world organization.
The Trump administration’s payment last week is earmarked for the U.N.’s regular operating budget, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told The Associated Press….
U.N. officials have said 95% of the overdue payments to the U.N.’s regular budget is from the United States.
As The New American previously reported, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz described the payment “an initial tranche of money” and “a significant … down payment on our annual dues.” This funding comes after UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the globalist body risked “imminent financial collapse.” Although Trump and his administration have taken multiple actions to restore U.S. sovereignty from the UN system — including signing a memorandum on January 7 to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations and agreements — Trump himself has made multiple statements supporting the UN itself.
In its article, The Associated Press noted recent comments by the president:
At the Board of Peace meeting [February 19] in Washington, Trump was much more positive than he has been in the past about the future of the United Nations, which was established on the ashes of World War II.
He said his administration was going to be working “very closely” with the U.N., adding, “Someday, I won’t be here — the United Nations will be.”
Trump said the Board of Peace “is going to almost be looking over the United Nations,” strengthening it and making sure its facilities are good and it runs properly.
“They need help, and they need help moneywise,” the president said, never mentioning that the U.S. failure to pay its dues is a key reason for the U.N.’s financial crisis.
“We’re going to help them moneywise, and we’re going to make sure the United Nations is viable,” Trump said. “And I think it’s going to eventually live up to its potential. That will be a big day.”
Instead of funding an international organization whose core principles and goals are completely antithetical to America’s founding principles, the United States should reassert its sovereignty by withdrawing from the UN entirely. Contact your U.S. representative and senators, and urge them to Get US Out! of the UN by supporting H.R. 1498 and S. 669.
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