"This is an excellent summary of the total betrayal of American voters by the Trump administration and Trump himself. As Lenin said it so well: 'Promises are like pie crusts. made to be broken.' Excellent though this report may be, however, I find the offered solution to be short of the mark. Public pressure is merely the starting point. That pressure must immediately include strategies and actions to REPLACE the politicians and bureaucrats who have betrayed us. Letters to your Congressman or donations to the so-called lesser-evil political party does not slow down the continuing betrayal in the least." ~ G. Edward Griffin

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."

Critic or Supporter?

Trump has derided the UN in multiple speeches and statements. Last September, in a scathing speech before the UN General Assembly, he skewered the organization for its failure to facilitate peace in worn-torn regions, its financing of disastrous open-border policies, and the litany of erroneous climate doomsday predictions and correlating policies the organization has endorsed over the decades. But he also said the UN had great potential. This reflects the chaotic, oftentimes wishy-washy, policies and rhetoric that emanate out of this administration.