The United States funds roughly one-fifth to one-quarter of the U.N.’s regular and peacekeeping budgets, making America the organization’s financial backbone. Yet what does the U.S. receive in return? Endless lectures from unelected diplomats, resolutions attacking American allies, and a parade of authoritarian regimes pretending to occupy the moral high ground.

Countries with abysmal human rights records, like Iran, routinely sit on U.N. councils supposedly dedicated to justice and liberty. Tyrannies condemn democracies while imprisoning dissidents, censoring journalists, persecuting minorities at home, and abusing women. The hypocrisy is staggering.

The U.N. has also become a monument to bureaucratic excess. Its agencies multiply endlessly, consuming money while producing reports, holding conferences, and issuing symbolic declarations with little measurable impact.

Corruption scandals have repeatedly engulfed U.N. programs, from peacekeeping abuses to financial mismanagement. And U.N. employees not only drafted textbooks instructing Palestinian children to kill Jews, it was proven they had actively participated in the October 7 massacre.

Despite this abysmal record, the U.N. constantly demands more funding, more authority, and more influence over sovereign nations like America and Israel. No private corporation could survive such chronic incompetence without bankruptcy. Yet the U.N. survives because American taxpayers like you and me are expected to subsidize failure indefinitely.

Even worse, the organization increasingly promotes ideological agendas disconnected from the practical concerns of ordinary Americans. While American cities struggle with crime, homelessness, inflation, and crumbling infrastructure, Washington politicians continue shipping billions overseas to sustain international institutions that openly resent U.S. power and independence. Citizens are told this spending is necessary for “global leadership,” but leadership should not mean writing blank checks to hostile bureaucracies.

Supporters argue that the U.N. prevents conflict and fosters diplomacy. In reality, many of the world’s worst atrocities unfolded while the U.N. issued statements, held emergency meetings, and failed to act decisively. From genocides to wars to humanitarian catastrophes, the U.N.’s record is littered with paralysis and empty rhetoric. Powerful nations pursue their interests regardless of U.N. declarations, while smaller nations exploit the institution as a stage for anti-American posturing.

Defund the U.N.!

As President Trump is proving on an almost daily basis, the United States does not need the U.N. to cooperate with allies, provide humanitarian aid, or defend freedom abroad. America built successful alliances like NATO based on mutual defense and shared democratic values. Bilateral diplomacy, trade agreements, and voluntary coalitions accomplish far more than bloated international assemblies dominated by political theater.

President Trump’s successful actions in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran — all without the aid of the U.N. — are accomplishing more for world peace than the U.N. has accomplished in decades. So why are we still paying the U.N.?

Defunding the U.N. would not mean abandoning the world. It would mean ending the fantasy that American taxpayers must bankroll a dysfunctional institution that too often undermines the nation financing it. Every dollar sent to the U.N. is a dollar unavailable for veterans, infrastructure, border security, scientific research, or debt reduction at home. Americans deserve a foreign policy grounded in national interest, not endless subsidization of global bureaucracy.

If the U.N. wants American money, it should earn American trust. Until then, the United States should stop acting like the world’s unlimited ATM.

Join me now in demanding Congress DEFUND the U.N. in the Appropriations bill!

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Sources:

Brunnstrom, David. “Iran Selected for a Vice Presidency Post at UN’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Confab.” The Times of Israel, April 28, 2026. Timesofisrael.com/iran-among-dozens-selected-for-vice-presidency-post-at-un-non-proliferation-confab/.

“Funding Sources | Financingun.report.” United Nations. Accessed May 4, 2026. Financingun.report/un-financing/un-funding/funding-entity. 

“How We Are Funded.” United Nations Peacekeeping. Accessed May 4, 2026. Peacekeeping.un.org/en/how-we-are-funded.