NEW YORK TIMES
Trump Administration Holds Off on Issuing U.N. Funding Order
by Max Fisher
January 28, 2017

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to issue two executive orders that would reduce funding to the United Nations and begin a process to review and potentially cancel certain multilateral treaties, according to current and former officials briefed on the matter. Both draft orders were submitted to the National Security Council for approval, but the council’s advisers were granted less than an hour and a half to review them, though this process normally takes weeks. Federal agencies were granted similarly brief windows for review…The draft orders are now being withheld for a more complete review by a number of agencies, including the State Department, which is expected to begin as early as next week. READ MORE

FYI Each year the United States gives approximately $8 billion in mandatory payments and voluntary contributions to the United Nations and its affiliated organizations. The biggest portion of this money – about $3 billion this year – goes to the U.N.’s regular and peacekeeping budgets.