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re: Trump Administration Slashes UN Aid From $17 Billion To $2 Billion
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:16 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:16 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Already have their judge lined up
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Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:43 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
The UN is the most globalist thing ever
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:50 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
Now this I voted for
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:01 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Thank you Trump. Next let's cut it to 0
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:06 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:
The United States will limit its United Nations humanitarian funding to $2 billion, marking a steep reduction from annual contributions that previously reached as high as $17 billion, US officials said. The move reflects President Donald Trump’s broader push to scale back foreign aid and force reforms within the UN system.
Sounds like everyone else needs to… pay their fair share
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:14 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:
Trump Administration Slashes UN Aid From $17 Billion To $2 Billion
That's .2% of the federal budget.
It's a rounding error. And a small one at that.
Y'all are so gullible.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:14 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
How will the learing centers be funded now?
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:21 pm to wackatimesthree
quote:And there it is. It’s only $15B, who cares? You would have to tax 150,000 people $100,000 each to get to $15B. But, yeah, just a rounding error.
It's a rounding error.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:22 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
I voted for this. 
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:40 pm to wackatimesthree
quote:It all adds up.
That's .2% of the federal budget. It's a rounding error. And a small one at that. Y'all are so gullible.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:43 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
90% of this money gets stolen by politicians anyway. If only 2 billion out of the 17 billion is used to help needy people why should we pay more.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:45 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:
The UN has appealed for $23 billion for 2026, citing shrinking United States support.
I went ahead and fixed it for them
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:48 pm to BayouBaw84
quote:It amazes me when $15B is referred to as a rounding error. No, it infuriates me. As the arse you quoted said..we are Gullible.
It all adds up.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:49 pm to EphesianArmor
quote:
Our freedom of movement and economy can be shut down all over again at a whim.
IF we allow it to. If we don't, good luck to the WHO.
That is unless there is a leftist president. Who will have the full blessing of the federal judiciary and the media to use every tool they have to force the American people to.
And after Covid, with the lies, propaganda, and use of force, it SHOULD be good luck to them again.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:50 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
F YEAH!!!
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:50 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Cut it off.
The UN is a terrorist organization
The UN is a terrorist organization
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:06 pm to Pragmatist2025
quote:
But, yeah, just a rounding error.
It is just a rounding error. It's a minuscule fraction of what the federal government spends. That's not an opinion. That's a fact.
quote:
who cares?
That's not the question. I know who cares. The question is WHY someone would care so much about something so insignificant. I know that too.
Because y'all are so easily hypnotized. Someone (Huckster, etc.) rails and rails about "Muh 'Merca 'Fust" to the point that you begin to emotionally equate anything you perceive to be taken away from someone else and preserved for Americans as being some major victory.
You can't see that they are manipulating you like that. Look at your argument and let's dissect it:
quote:
You would have to tax 150,000 people $100,000 each to get to $15B.
O.k. Why the random number of 150,000 people to tax? Obviously because it makes it look more significant. But if we talk about all the people in the US who filed tax returns last year (which, why wouldn't we?), now we're talking about 150 million people (more like 155 million, but just to keep it simple).
So now you're talking about $100 per income tax payer per year. Less than $10 a month or 28 cents a day.
Secondly, now that we've saved income tax payers in America this princely sum, what do you think is going to happen to it? Do you think it will be returned to taxpayers? Used to pay down the debt? (BTW, just the interest on the debt comes out to about $2.66 Billion dollars A DAY. So we couldn't even pay just the interest payments on the debt for one week from that $15 Billion).
No matter how you look at it, it's an insignificant amount of money in the context of the federal budget, in the context of a country of 155 million income tax payers, in the context of the debt, etc. The only context in which it would be significant is if they were going to take that money and give it to a relatively small group of people, which isn't going to happen.
It's not going to move any needle other than that.
And it's almost certainly not even going to "save" taxpayers anything. They'll just take it and spend it on something else just as asinine.
"Cutting spending" means actually cutting spending, which requires a reduced budget, not simply refusing to spend a certain amount of money in the current budget (speaking of which, bet you $10 a federal judge rules that Trump has to give the aid anyway).
When Trump gets around to reducing the budget, let me know. That will be a significant accomplishment. Up 'till now, he's perfectly fine expanding the budget, as he did in the OBBB.
This post was edited on 12/29/25 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:11 pm to EphesianArmor
quote:
World Health Organization.
Whatever that group was they’re now basically a bad guy from a Bond movie.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:24 pm to supadave3
quote:You and I are tired of it, for sure. But those making the decisions are doing this for their own interests. I'm just wondering what those are.
On one hand it could mean that the dollar is so strong that there isn't as much need to bribe...errrrrr..."aid" other countries into using it. On the other hand, it could be that the value of the dollar
Or it could be that we’re tired of giving our taxpayer funds o countries that use it against us or supplement for their own defense to use the money on graft, corruption, or wasteful entitlements.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:28 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
32 judges writing a stay to make it continue.
I would like to see a breakdown of the 17 and now 2 billion.
I would like to see a breakdown of the 17 and now 2 billion.
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