Every three years, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a new “scale of assessments” under which the U.N. assigns specific percentages to the member states, which they are expected to pay to support U.N. expenses, programs, and activities. Since the first scale in 1946, the United States has objected to the U.N. relying excessively on a single member state for the budget which has always been the U.S. and argued for establishing a maximum assessment level and, subsequently, lowering that maximum.