UN funding: alarm at reports Trump will order sweeping cuts

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However the order on international funding cuts, titled Auditing and Reducing US Funding of International Organisations, would reduce congressional expenditure and is likely to attract only limited opposition in Congress. US allies have reacted with a mix of alarm and scepticism to reports that the Trump administration is preparing to order sweeping cuts in funding to the UN and other international organisations, while potentially walking away from some treaties. Many of the flurry of executive orders produced by the incoming administration will have little meaning without a congressional vote on funding. According to one draft executive order leaked to US media outlets, there is to be a 40% cut to US voluntary contributions to international bodies. ?It would potentially be brutal but as with all these executive orders we have to wait to see what happens in practice,? the diplomat said.