All Trump has to do is hold up a few checks to the UN and the place will shut down and send them packing back to wherever they came from - the ungrateful louts.
While we're on the subject, I don't see why Trump can't just deport a bunch of cathylick bishops and cardinals back to the Vatican.
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US President Donald Trump thinks the United Nations spends too much money, but who pays for it and where does the money go?
Updated 22 September 2017
By Kelsey Munro
The US President is not a renowned fan of the sprawling global network of UN organisations, calling the institution "weak and incompetent" during his campaign.
But if his first speech as President to the UN General Assembly on September 19 took a more measured tone, he still complained that the United States “bears an unfair cost burden”, and called for major reform, including for other countries to pay more.
“The United States is one of 193 countries in the United Nations, and yet we pay 22 per cent of the entire budget and more,” Trump said.
In this case, a President who has been famously loose with facts, is correct.
The US is by far the biggest donor to the UN, in 2016 contributing some $10 billion of its $49 billion annual revenue. The next biggest donors were Germany ($3.4 billion) and the UK ($3 billion).
The permanent members of the Security Council that most often oppose American agendas in the UN, China ($1.3 billion) and Russia ($562 million), are ranked 6th and 15th respectively in terms of the magnitude of their contributions.
Australia was the UN’s 13th biggest national donor in 2016, contributing $748 million.
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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/who-pays...s-the-money-go
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