Trump Prepares Orders to Reduce U.S. Funding for U.N.

"The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties.

The first of the two draft orders, titled 'Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations' and obtained by The New York Times, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.

Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea. The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that 'is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism' or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights.

The order calls for then enacting "at least a 40 percent overall decrease" in remaining United States funding toward international organizations..."