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The report also found federal funding for global warming had increased by 116 percent between 1993 and 2004, to $5.1 billion.

The U.N. as a whole received $7.7 billion from American taxpayers last year. The UNDP is supported by about $100 million in U.S. taxpayer money annually.

“The idea that some how or another we just need to write a blank check and say here because we’ve always done that is not acceptable.”

U.N. delegates are witnessing is a U.S. administration praising UNESCO, regretting the funding cut-off, and implying that U.S. officials are toiling behind the scenes to find workarounds to continue supporting UNESCO. – Forbes

West describes the state of the economy, the false hope of more spending and the danger to Israel from the pending UN vote on a Palestinian state.

U.S. contributions to the U.N. system reached a record level of $7.692 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2010—a staggering 21 percent increase over FY 2009.[1] This is the third consecutive year in which U.S. contributions set new records.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida is especially keen to cut funding to the UN Human Rights Council, which uses taxpayer money to produce reports praising the human-rights achievements of countries such as … Libya . Earlier this year, Ros-Lehtinen declared her desire to “kill all U.S. funding for that beast,” which she described as “a rogue’s gallery of pariah states.”

Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is holding a hearing Tuesday entitled “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action,” featuring some the U.N.’s most outspoken critics.