Red-state agriculture commissioners push to end funding for certain UN groups

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

07/01/25 9:15 AM ET


Nearly a dozen agriculture commissioners from red states wrote to top Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday calling for the elimination of federal funding to organizations that promote “net-zero” climate policies. The letter, which was obtained exclusively by The Hill, argues that net-zero policies adopted by certain organizations “will have devastating effects on American consumers, farmers, and ranchers, and further endanger food security for the poor in America.”

The agriculture commissioners singled out the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations Environment Programme as organizations that promote those policies.

“Each organization is acting, in the words of President Trump’s executive order regarding U.S. funding of the UN and other international organizations, “contrary to the interests of the United States,” and should not receive taxpayer funds,” the commissioners wrote.

Signatories include the agriculture commissioners from Texas, Iowa, West Virginia, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Carolina.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5378582-red-state-agriculture-commissioners-net-zero-funding/

[BradBo]

1. Soon you won't be able to get in the harvest anyway.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. So Republican Agriculture Commissioners oppose healthy seas, environment, food and agriculture

Got it. That only leaves profit for "things we like".

Republicans are psychopaths. Pretty much all of them.

[maxsolomon]

3. What business of theirs are UN net-zero energy policies?

Net-zero policies aim to reduce carbon emissions to slow rising temperatures. The United Nations has pointed to replacing gas and oil-based power systems with renewable energy as key steps to achieving net-zero emissions.

Tuesday’s letter from agriculture commissioners cites the IMO’s efforts to impose emissions charges on shipping and the FAO’s call for reduced beef consumption as problematic for the agricultural industry.

[Bayard]

4. These are all international organizations

Are they trying to further encourage Mr. Malicious to get us out of the UN?

[maxsolomon]

5. Out of the UN, I'd wager.

Long time Bircher goal.

[Bayard]

6. Oops--that's what I meant.

Thanks!

[lonely bird]

7. Um

Fuck each and every one of them.