Will The U.S. leave the UN? Updated Jan. 27, 17

The bill  introduced this month by Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers called the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017 which would allow the United States to remove all ties from the United Nations. Rep. Rogers also introduced a similar bill in 2015.

Reader Input: from DH............President Trump is working on an executive order to slash all funding to UN agencies that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or the Palestine Liberation Organization. The executive order also would cut funding to UN agencies or other international bodies that support programs funding abortion, back activity bypassing sanctions against Iran or North Korea, “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism,” or is blamed for systemic human rights violations, reported Wed. 25 Jan. 2017. The draft order also calls for decreasing remaining USA funding to international groups by at least 40%. A second draft order urges a review of current or pending treaties with more than one foreign country in order to obtain recommendations from which agreements the USA should withdraw. During his campaign, Trump called for the USA to pull out of international organizations. Following the passage in Dec. 2016, by the UN Security Council of a resolution slamming Israeli settlements, Trump wrote on Twitter that the international body had become “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.” The resolution passed with the approval of all Security Council member states, except for the USA, which abstained from voting. Trump had called for a veto. (JTA) Iintercede that President Trump’s initiative to cut funding to the anti-Israel biased UN and other international organizations for reasons stated above will be quickly put into action.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on Wed. 25 Jan. 2017, that he welcomes President Trump’s plan to sign an executive order that would halt all USA funding to UN agencies that recognize the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization as a full member. "The Palestinians continue threaten us with additional unilateral actions and we will continue to battle these attempts,” Danon said. “We welcome any initiative aimed at thwarting these attacks. The international community must make clear to the Palestinians once and for all that the only way to move forward is by them ending terrorism and incitement and returning to direct negotiations,” the ambassador added. The Palestinians enjoy "non-member state" status at the UN, which grants them limited operational freedoms. Trump's consideration of this executive order, titled “Auditing and Reducing USA Funding of International
Organizations,” pairs with a Senate effort to legislate similar threats against the UN over its actions targeting Israel. That effort, led by senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, gained steam after the Obama administration last month abstained from a Security Council resolution condemning Israel over its settlement enterprise.