The UN Is Burning Through American Taxpayer Money for Bad Construction Projects—and No One's WatchingBy Ben Smith | 3:29 PM on May 09, 2026
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/09/the-un-is-burning-through-american-taxpayer-money-on-bad-construction-projects-and-no-one-is-watching-n2202172?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812Quote:
The federal government's own watchdog has confirmed what the numbers have long made clear: the United Nations cannot be trusted to manage the money it receives,
and the State Department has been complicit in letting it happen.A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in April examined 11 U.N. capital projects worth more than $4 billion combined. It found a predictable mess: years-long delays and nine-figure cost overruns, coupled with contractor failures and unusable designs, and a State Department bureau with no formal system for monitoring any of it.
American taxpayers are left footing the bill, though. GAO confirmed the U.S. was the largest financial contributor to the U.N. in 2023. As of early 2026, the U.S. owed approximately $2.2 billion in unpaid dues, a figure the U.N. has been loudly publicizing while simultaneously running construction projects into the ground. An organization pleading poverty while mismanaging billions in active construction budgets is not a victim of underfunding. It's a management failure dressed up as a cash crisis...

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