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How much U.S. money is the U.N. actually getting?

Magic With U.S. Money for the United Nations

- Claudia Rosett
Friday, April 8, 2011
-Forbes

Welcome to the latest Magical Mystery Tour of American funding for the United Nations. Today’s featured mystery is, how to explain the missing $2.8 billion?

Thursday morning, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on “United Nations Budget and Policy.â€

U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson win this week’s award for cynicism.

Obama finally embraces malaria victims — as political pawns

- Steve Milloy
Sunday, April 10, 2011

U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson win this week’s award for cynicism.

In his column (“When cuts lead to coffins“), Gerson wrote:

So far in the budget debate, the Obama administration has drawn few bright lines, preferring to blur distinctions with concessions. But last week, a neon line was drawn by an unlikely administration official. Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, possesses the mildest of manners. Testifying before the House state and foreign operations subcommittee, however, Shah had this to say:

“We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying. Of that 70,000, 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back, specifically…â€