Conservatives Urge Trump To Cut Off US Tax Dollars To UN Agency Linked To Hamas

Twenty-five U.S. Senate conservatives are publicly calling on President Donald Trump to cut off all U.S. taxpayer funded to a United Nations program whose staffers helped plan and carry out the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks that killed, kidnapped and assaulted around 1,000 innocent men, women and children.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) report in a statement they and 23 colleagues “sent a letter to President Trump requesting that his administration work with the United Nations (U.N.) to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).”

“The USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) has identified multiple UNRWA employees who participated in the October 7 terrorist attack, as well as 14 others affiliated with Hamas. The OIG is currently expanding its investigation,” Cruz and Cotton reports.

The letter read, in part:

“We strongly support your administration’s efforts to preserve Israel’s long-term security and ensure that Gaza has a future free of Hamas’s terrorist influence. Your strong leadership has been instrumental in advancing a comprehensive 20-point peace plan that demands Hamas disarm and play no role in Gaza governance. Achieving stability in Gaza requires ridding Gaza of the military, social, and political infrastructure that fed Hamas’s power. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is one such structure that must be dismantled, not just in Gaza but across the region.

“Israel found that at least twelve UNRWA employees participated in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, and that roughly ten percent of the agency’s employees in Gaza have ties to terrorist groups. Recently, a USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation identified three additional UNRWA employees who participated in the attacks as well as 14 others affiliated with Hamas. The USAID OIG is expanding its probe to examine more than 100 UNRWA employees for potential ties to Hamas and involvement in the attacks.

“We strongly urge your administration to take decisive action to fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the UN budget. Any aid organization in Gaza or otherwise must be demonstrably free of ties to terrorism and committed to transparency, accountability, and peace. We must ensure this failed system doesn’t continue reinforcing the conditions that have fueled terrorism for generations. The time to act is now.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter. We stand prepared to assist.”

The letter was co-signed by Senators Jim Banks (R-Ind.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Curtis (R-Utah), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).

Conservative point out the only way to fully stop the UN from funding Islamic terrorism is to get the United States out of the UN entirely.  Trump, who owns millions of dollars of commercial and residential property in New York City rented by UN agencies and officials, does not support getting the U.S. out of the UN.

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