Should the United States pull out of the United Nations?

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Bill Summary

The United States helped found the United Nations and remains the single largest financial backer of the U.N. at present. This bill would sever the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and the U.N. by the ending the membership of the U.S. in the U.N. While full details for this legislation have not yet been released, parallel legislation in 2017 proposed to achieve U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. by prohibiting authorization of funds for the U.N. and closing the U.S. mission to the U.N. Sponsor: Rep. Mike Rogers (Republican AL-3)
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Opponents say

• “If the United States leaves the U.N., the agency will continue to exist as a much weaker entity with limited authority abroad. The U.N. was created as a multilateral organization meant to promote international cooperation. If its initial champion, the nation that has hosted the institution’s headquarters from its beginning, was to withdraw, it would create a precedent that erodes the principles on which the U.N. was founded.” - Jaime Viens, the Borgen Project
• [This bill is] far-right extremism that smacks of the John Birch Society and isolationists’ beliefs that international coalitions stressing peace and policing of global violence endanger American sovereignty. Rogers is a subscriber.” - Philip Tutor, Anniston Star

Proponents say

• “The United Nations is a disaster and our country bankrolls over 20 percent of its annual budget. The UN continues to attack our greatest ally Israel, and they continue to attack American ideals like the Second Amendment. President Trump has done his part to reign in the UN’s continual attacks on American sovereignty, but it’s time we did more.” - Rep. Mike Rogers (R AL-3)
• “Who would be crazy enough to stay in the United Nations and pay the most for their funding while it’s attended by Third World dictators who are writing rules and regulations that are supposed to bind our country?” - Rep. Thomas Massie (R KY-4)