Trump Pulls UN Funding, Gives It to Faith-Based Orgs Helping Persecuted Christians
In a speech Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Trump administration “will no longer rely” solely on the United Nations to disperse funds meant to aid Christians being persecuted in the Middle East.
Pence made the remarks in Washington at the In Defense of Christians’ annual Solidarity Dinner for Christians in the Middle East gala. According to the Washington Examiner, the Obama administration relied on the United Nations to disperse over $1 billion in funding meant for humanitarian aid in the Middle East.
“My friends, those days are over,” Pence said.
Instead, the pulled humanitarian funding will now go to faith-based organizations to distribute.
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“Our fellow Christians and all who are persecuted in the Middle East should not have to rely on multinational institutions when America can help them directly,” Pence said.
From now on, the United States Agency for International Development will administer the relief, Pence said.
“Tonight, it is my privilege to announce President Trump has ordered the State Department to stop funding ineffective relief efforts at the United Nations and from this day forward, America will provide support directly to persecuted communities through USAID,” he said.
The audience greeted the announcement with a sustained round of applause.
“The United States will work hand-in-hand from this day forward with faith-based groups and private organizations to help those who are persecuted for their faith,” Pence said.
“This is the moment. Now is the time.
“And America will support these people in their hour of need.”
Let’s face facts: The United Nations is not the most effective organization when it comes to distributing aid to certain groups. One of those groups is made up of persecuted Christians, who aren’t high on the priority list at the U.N.
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Then, why would you leave any of these decisions in the hands of an organization that’s vehemently anti-Israel and anti-American?
The Trump administration is making the right decision here — and the more money pulled from the U.N.’s more ineffectual efforts, the better. https://conservativetribune.com/trump-pulls-un-funding/
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This is a GREAT thing, Finally someone in the white house that understand how worthless the UN is....
What? Are the Christians the .03%? Guess they might be living in the hell hole they're stuck in. You know how anything good for the Christians is bad for Progressives. Don't you just hate those Southern Baptist bigots for not wanting to bake a cake with poo poo for icing.
E.A Or they can now " Take Over all Aid " and do the distribution according to those that appreciate/need it. not those that will abuse it... so guess what?
This was a sensible and in fact valuable decision to make. I hope it is just the beginning of the USA pulling funding from the biased, bigoted, discriminatory UN organizations and doing direct aid with those funds.
This is a very good article. Some aid in certain situations is good, but just like in this country, taking away the motivation to help oneself can be damaging to the upward movement of country's society.
Does foreign aid always help the poor?
It sounds kind of crazy to say that foreign aid often hurts, rather than helps, poor people in poor countries. Yet that is what Angus Deaton, the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in economics , has argued.
Deaton, an economist at Princeton University who studied poverty in India and South Africa and spent decades working at the World Bank, won his prize for studying how the poor decide to save or spend money. But his ideas about foreign aid are particularly provocative. Deaton argues that, by trying to help poor people in developing countries, the rich world may actually be corrupting those nations’ governments and slowing their growth. According to Deaton, and the economists who agree with him, much of the $135 billion that the world’s most developed countries spent on official aid in 2014 may not have ended up helping the poor.
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every dollar not given to the UN is a good investment in our future.
I'm sorry when did American become just a Christian nation?!
So if we stop funding the UN will he still bitch about other countries not paying their fair share or suggest that they do the same.