Next, Defund the United Nations

The U.S. underwrites a variety of international organizations that make up a global deep state

By Eugene Kontorovich. He is a professor at George Mason University Scalia School of Law and a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Excerpts:

"Nearly every U.N.-affiliated organization seeks to make climate and gender issues (including abortion and transgenderism) an integral part of their work. DEI offices abound. The International Organization for Migration lists as among its central areas of activity “gender equality,” “environmental sustainability” and “reducing global inequalities.”"

"The U.N. Commission on Human Rights promotes a variety of transgender propaganda campaigns, such as helping Nepalese “LGBTIQ+ writers to tell their own story.”"

"The U.N. Population Fund—whose budget Mr. Trump cut in 2017 because of its funding for abortion—says “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA’s workforce.” In 2021, $1 million went to the International Labor Organization for job training for gays and lesbians in Brazil. In 2022, through the U.N. Development Program, U.S. taxpayers have funded a program called “Being LGBTI in the Caribbean.”

Apart from ideological absurdity, this leads to massive inefficiency, with the U.S. funding numerous entities with overlapping missions. The U.S. funds the U.N. Environment Program, the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program, the Global Environment Facility, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Montreal Protocol and others. If that weren’t enough, the Global Fund for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria says “climate change is the largest global health challenge of the 21st challenge,” and thus part of its mission."

"The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, for which the U.S., as with most U.N. programs, is the lead donor, has called on Washington to surrender land to Native Americans, while the Special Committee on Decolonization regularly demands Puerto Rican independence."

"Federal law already requires defunding U.N.-affiliated international organizations that accept Palestine as a member state. The failure, since the Obama administration, to enforce this law has undermined American credibility at the U.N."