"When United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres meets with U.S. legislators and President Donald Trump this week, one of the big questions will be whether he can guarantee the sweeping U.N. reforms promised last year - as 'absolutely essential' protection from the anticipated hostility of the Trump Administration protection-will truly get off the ground as promised.
An additional question the Secretary General may have to answer from U.S. skeptics: how much additional money for the U.N. is the reform really going to cost? So far, the U.N. isn't saying, except to assert any money involved will be 'voluntary'-meaning donors like the U.S. will not be automatically on the hook for it..."