CHOPPING BLOCK: White House Proposal Cuts UN, NATO Funds — Halves State Dept. Budget: Report

Priorities are shifting…

According to a Fox News report, a Trump Whtie House proposal is calling for the elimination of funding for more than 20 international organizations, including the United Nations, NATO, and the Organization of American States.

It also calls for cutting the State Department budget in half.

A draft of the State Department budget calls for $2B for ‘America First’ priorities.

From Fox News:

The U.S. contributed around $13 billion to the United Nations in 2023 and around $3.5 billion to NATO. The proposed budget calls for allocating $2 billion for “America First” priorities. Those coffers could be used for “specific partners” like India and Jordan, according to the document, or broader priorities, like the South Pacific Tuna Treaty.

However, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday, “there is no final plan, final budget.”

The proposal is an early draft and has to pass layers of approval within the administration before it even gets to Congress. Congress can then take it as an outline but ultimately draw up its own budget figures.

The foreign service travel budget and benefits would be scaled back, and the Fulbright scholarship program would be eliminated.

The document calls for a 2% reduction in diplomatic security, cuts to the inspector general’s office and the closure of smaller embassies in countries such as the Maldives, Malta, Luxembourg and the Central African Republic.

It also proposes a 54% cut to global public health funding, with carve-outs for malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis, and a complete elimination of international peacekeeping funds.

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The Trump administration has moved quickly to dismantle foreign aid, eliminating nearly 90% of USAID projects and merging the agency with the State Department and defunding “soft power” institutions like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting networks.

More over at Fox News:

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