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United States Funding for the UN

Each year, Congress is responsible for approving and allocating the payments requested by the Administration for U.S. assessed contributions to the United Nations regular and peacekeeping budgets.  Currently, the U.S. is assessed 22% of the UN regular budget and 26% for UN peacekeeping appropriations.  Due to Administration and Congressional underfunding of U.S. treaty-obligated payments to the UN, the U.S. now has $1.5 billion in permanent debt to the UN.

US Funding for the UNU.S. Funding for the UN:  An Overview  
As of March 2008, the U.S. was $2.4 billion behind in its treaty obligations to the United Nations.  Congress and the Administration are working to address this issue, but more needs to be done to address this problem now.  Learn More

US Contributions to the UNHow do dues and contributions to the UN work? 
Funding for the UN and its agencies comes from two sources: assessed contributions to finance the UN’s regular budget, peacekeeping operations, and some specialized agencies, and voluntary contributions, through which more than half of the UN’s funding is provided. Learn More

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