Eighty Years of US Bankrolling UN is Enough

Eighty Years is Enough: The United Nations has long been a fixture of New York City, headquartered on Manhattan’s East Side. While the UN was founded on noble principles -- to promote peace, security, and cooperation -- its presence in the U.S. has come at a significant cost to taxpayers, New Yorkers, and our national priorities.

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, which established the legal framework granting the UN privileges and immunities necessary for its operations at its headquarters in New York City, while ensuring access and certain obligations under U.S. law, it’s time to ask a fundamental question: Is hosting the UN in America still serving the interests of the American people?

The answer, increasingly, is no.