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U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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> American taxpayers have spent billions on these organizations with little return, while they often criticize U.S. policies, advance agendas contrary to our values, or waste taxpayer dollars by purporting to address important issues but not achieving any real results.

>By exiting these entities, President Trump is saving taxpayer money and refocusing resources on America First priorities.

Taking a look at the actual list, many of these organizations deal with issues such as climate change, environmental protection, and education. I think this means two things: One, the U.S. is further breaking away from the rest of the world. Trump's "America First" policies have effectively broke alliances and trust. Two, the current administration is quite heavily biased against clean energy. A majority of the organizations left are governing/advising on environmental issues, namely renewable energy and climate change. Trump frames the decision as "pro-America"; Trump says "our" values, he means his/his party's. I don't think that many people who have put at least a little research into the subject would agree that a) Climate change is not an issue and b) Renewables are (or at least getting to be) a good alternative to our currently climate-change exacerbating sources of power. The U.S. is going to be divided more and more along party lines, and it's going to get harder and harder to stop.

Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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> American taxpayers have spent billions on these organizations with little return, while they often criticize U.S. policies, advance agendas contrary to our values, or waste taxpayer dollars by purporting to address important issues but not achieving any real results. >By exiting these entities, President Trump is saving taxpayer money and refocusing resources on America First priorities. Taking a look at the actual…

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Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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The Trump administration seems eager to pit America against the rest of the world's nations, which altogether comprise 8 billion people.

The USA has a population of around 0.4 billion.

Until a future administration corrects course, the future will be one demoralizing failure after another.

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