according to the size of each nation s economy. the united states is the biggest economy in the world, hence it underpins most of the budget, like it does most of the u.n. budget and other such things. but leave that as it may be, since 2014, when russia under vladimir putin changed the rules of the game by invading another country, that is when the united states and its nato allies got together and said actually, now, let s get serious. let s all up our budgets. those who are not at the 2%, up the budget and get serious, which is what they have been doing. 100% of nato countries since 2014 have been moving their budgets towards the 2% target. it s not all perfect yet, but they have an agreed goal to do that by 2024, not tomorrow morning as president trump suggested today, and not by 4%
grouping. even that fundamental problems with adversaries of america consistingly blocking resolutions. this is a problem that goes back decades. the general assembly throughout the cold war was either non-aligned meaning neutral between the struggle between freedom and tyranny or openly sided with the soviet union. i m glad to see the administration taking on this problem. it is a deeply-rooted problem in an institution that wasn t worked the way it was designed to. bill: the u.s. pays 22% of the u.n. budget. michael anton in d.c. sandra: three republican contenders hoping to unseat joe manchin facing off in a debate last night. each candidate looking to separate himself from the others. i was the only one on that
jillian: good morning. lieutenant colonel sent a flag and sent me one as well. i wanted to give him another thank you. i know it means a lot to you guys and means a lot to me as well. do you remember what u.n. ambassador nikki haley issued this warning? it is outrageous to see so many countries who we support go against us at the u.n. we re watching their votes, and, yes, we are taking names. ainsley: a new state department report giving her those names, revealing u.n. member states only voted with the u.s. 31% of the time last year. in a statement haley says, quote: this is not an acceptable return on our investment. american taxpayers pay for 22% of the u.n. budget. after widespread backlash a school is backing down on their decision to get students to cover up at prom. catholic school in michigan accused of body shaming for the so-called modesty ponchos. they plan to give them out at the dance to anyone wearing inappropriate dance. a method of shaming.
trump riling up our allies and so forth, we might end up having to spend more, it s not that much to spend. david: john, the fact is we d all like to look at the u.n. budget. part of the problem, it s such a corrupt agency. there are so many different channels in which the money can go, nobody has a clear idea of how much. clauda rosette, the smartest person in the u.n. i know of, says the total funding is 49 billion and look where some of the money goes to some of the scandals. we can put those up here. we have the oil for food scandal, the sex abuse scandal, involving the u.n., peacekeepers were involved in sexual abuse of some of the people they were supposed to product, cronyism at unesco, cash for kim in north korea. scandal after scandal after scandal. i think what s most scandalous about this is the basic truth that the u.n. is most famous for being an organization that routinely trash talks the united states. and so, why on earth would the u.s. be the number one funder
70 years, after world war ii, tens of millions of refugees row settle in a few years and after india and pakistan broke up, what the camps do is provide sources of terrorism, teaching young palestinians they re going back to israel. that thing should be shut down. david: bruce, it s not like we re stingy in what we give the u.n. we give the united nations 22% of just their ga budget, general assembly budget. 22%. the next, the number two country is only 9%, that s japan and then goes down from there. so, shouldn t we get a little more bang for our buck? well, listen, the way i look at this, i sort of to get a full picture i view it sort of like a donald trump tax return. i d like to see the whole budget before i make a judgment, but when you consider we re spending about a billion or so dollars on the united nations, and we re spending $800 billion, we re going to have a huge budget for defense, this is a drop in the bucket and when you talk about the