A group of Republican senators has introduced a bill to the Senate that calls for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations (UN). The bill was published on the website of one of the authors of the initiative, Energy Commission Chairman Mike Lee, who represents Utah. Senators Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott of Florida, Chip Roy of Texas, and Mike Rogers of Michigan also co-signed the bill.<\/p>\n
“The President should fully terminate the United States’ membership in the UN and its membership in all organs, specialized agencies, commissions, and other bodies officially affiliated with the UN,” the text of the bill reads.<\/p>\n
The bill would also prohibit rejoining the organization without Senate approval and require the US to cease participation in UN peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Fox News<\/em>, Senator Lee described the bill as a response to “years of out-of-control bureaucratic expansion and financial abuses by the UN at the expense of American taxpayers.”<\/p>\n Lee said the organization “has become a platform for tyrants and a venue for attacks on the United States and its allies, so Washington must stop paying for it.”<\/p>\n Senator Roy argued that the UN “has failed for decades to prevent wars, genocides, human rights abuses, and even epidemics, despite all the money and attention.”<\/p>\n According to data from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), one of the leading US think tanks, cited by Fox News<\/em>, the US provided more than $18 billion to the UN in 2022. The CFR stated that this amount is equal to about one-third of the organization’s total budget.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump had advocated reducing funding to the UN during his first presidential term. At the time, Trump described the organization as “a simple club where people gather to chat and have a good time.”<\/p>\n On January 20, Trump signed a decree to withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and ban funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after he began his second presidential term.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Senator Lee also proposed a bill to withdraw the US from the UN in December 2023 but failed to find support at the time.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group of Republican senators has introduced a bill to the Senate that calls for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations (UN). The bill was published on the website of one of the authors of the initiative, Energy Commission Chairman Mike Lee, who represents Utah. Senators Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rick Scott […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[7008,7006,1646,6999,7003,319,7007,6997,6996,7000,7005,6995,6998,7001,1682,7002,7004,502,1192,1846,1644],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-american-taxpayers","tag-bureaucratic-expansion","tag-cfr","tag-chip-roy","tag-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-donald-trump","tag-financial-abuses","tag-marsha-blackburn","tag-mike-lee","tag-mike-rogers","tag-peacekeeping-missions","tag-republican-senators","tag-rick-scott","tag-senate-bill","tag-un","tag-un-funding","tag-un-human-rights-council","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-unrwa","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"yoast_head":"\n