In 2015, GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was talking to a group of Second Amendment supporters in New Hampshire. When the topic of the United Nations came up, Paul, with his trademark candor, cut to the chase.
“I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United States,” Paul said. “There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the U.N., and I think I’d be happy to dissolve it.”
Paul went on to say the U.S. pays for “a huge chunk” of the U.N.’s out-of-control spending, which includes millions of dollars in “cash handouts to help feed, transport, and house people headed for the U.S. border,” according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
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