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Hopefully that's the last penny they get from us, oh and you've got 90 days to pack your chit and vacate the building. we're putting a casino on the ground. Hey wonder if Trump can call the bank and stop payment?

Days before Trump’s inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund
By Chris Mooney January 17 at 3:59 PM

With just three days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, the State Department on Tuesday announced a half-billion-dollar contribution to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund, part of $3 billion the United States has promised to the fund under President Obama. That’s on top of another $500 million transferred last year, meaning the United States has now sent $1 billion to the fund, or a third of the president’s pledge.

“The Green Climate Fund is a critical tool that helps catalyze billions of dollars in public and private investment in countries dealing not only with the challenges of climate change, but the immense economic opportunities that are embedded in the transition to a lower carbon economy,” said Department spokesman John Kirby at a press briefing Tuesday.

Republicans have been heavily critical of this spending, and Trump pledged, while campaigning, that “we’re going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.” Coming so close to the inauguration, the new expenditure is likely to spark controversy for this reason.

Kirby said in a statement that the funds came from a 2016 appropriation for the agency’s Economic Support Fund. This $4.3 billion fund contains some dollars earmarked for specific programs and other dollars that are not officially allocated — the current monies came from the latter.

By the year 2020, under the 2009 Copenhagen accord, developed nations are supposed to be allocating $100 billion annually on climate-change aid to poorer, developing nations, money to be used for clean energy projects and climate change adaptation measures, among other expenditures. Much, but not all of this money is intended to be distributed through the Green Climate Fund, which has already raised $10 billion so far.

The broader idea of wealthier nations helping poorer ones adapt to a changing planet, and to transition their energy systems, was a fundamental component of bringing all nations on board to the agreement, and environmental groups hailed the move Tuesday.

“The amount paid-in today, $500 million, constitutes only 0.012% of the federal budget each year, or $1.53 per American,” said Heather Coleman, climate change manager at Oxfam America, in a statement heralding the payment.

“This contribution shows that even as we face an incoming Administration that engages in dangerous climate denial, those of us in the United States who believe in taking action to save our planet, our economy, and our future will continue doing everything in our power to move forward,” added Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in a statement. “I am glad that other countries are continuing to take this challenge seriously and that we can continue to work together to fight climate change.”

At the State Department press briefing, when asked about the timing of the release of the funds, Kirby said that “this is an investment that had been long-planned. I don’t — I don’t believe there was any nefarious desire or intent to do it just two days before [the inauguration].” He said that the monies had already been transferred to the Green Climate Fund.

But of course, the Trump administration and a sympathetic Congress could block further payments. However, that would create awkwardness with other countries that are deeply committed to climate change, said John Coequyt, director of international climate policy at the Sierra Club. Coequyt pointed out that Trump’s nominee to head the State Department, Rex Tillerson, has signaled that he wants to keep a “seat at the table” when it comes to the Paris climate agreement.

“It’s a head of state issue, and you know, president-elect Trump is going to hear it when he goes to talk to other heads of state,” said Coequyt. “They can decide that they don’t want to move another penny, that is their decision to make, but it’s pretty clear that it is not in our national interest.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ener...m=.56ceef8ce7b0


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Treason.

Again.

He knew Trump would have stopped that transfer.


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Putin is right, this kind of stuff is unheard of.

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They obviously have too much money in their budget if they can afford to throw $500M to scumbags. Someone needs a serious budget cut.


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What a fing waste!!! This monkey in the white house is doing all the damage he can..


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Originally Posted by WyoCoyoteHunter
What a fing waste!!! This monkey in the white house is doing all the damage he can..


For 8 years now.


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Originally Posted by stevelyn
They obviously have too much money in their budget if they can afford to throw $500M to scumbags. Someone needs a serious budget cut.
No kidding. Hillary LOST 6 billion. Where is it?

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That [bleep] is going to stop.


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And you azzholes are worried about the cost of food stamps. Wouldn't matter if all domestic social programs were abolished tomorrow. Our taxes would remain the same. They'd just throw our hard earned money away on something else.

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i am so tired of not even getting a reach around. if the current congress doesn't address this kind of bs we need a clean sweep.


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Simply a slush fund.
I'd bet cash that The Zero will be accessing some of those funds after the inauguration.


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To hell with giving our money away, we have gimme dats here that need more food stamp money for beer and butts.

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Originally Posted by Blackheart
And you azzholes are worried about the cost of food stamps. Wouldn't matter if all domestic social programs were abolished tomorrow. Our taxes would remain the same. They'd just throw our hard earned money away on something else.


Amazing the respect you have for people here.

If you don't like the company, why don't you simply LEAVE?

BTW, you are wrong. Entitlements are over 60% of the federal budget. It's not that hard to find facts when you care to look.


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This [bleep] has to stop. We re broke.

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Originally Posted by benchman
Originally Posted by stevelyn
They obviously have too much money in their budget if they can afford to throw $500M to scumbags. Someone needs a serious budget cut.
No kidding. Hillary LOST 6 billion. Where is it?


Clinton Foundation......


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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by Blackheart
And you azzholes are worried about the cost of food stamps. Wouldn't matter if all domestic social programs were abolished tomorrow. Our taxes would remain the same. They'd just throw our hard earned money away on something else.


Amazing the respect you have for people here.

If you don't like the company, why don't you simply LEAVE?

BTW, you are wrong. Entitlements are over 60% of the federal budget. It's not that hard to find facts when you care to look.
I doubt like hell I'm wrong. No matter how much of the budget domestic programs comprise our taxes would not go down and the money would be wasted on something else. And no, I don't have any respect for you idiots. Just as none was ever shown me by you.

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Congress???... 500 mill would help a lot of schools...where does the ahole find 500 mill without Congress???. Wtf


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Originally Posted by Blackheart
Just as none was ever shown me by you.


You allow no room for it.

Nobody was calling you out, or even mentioned you in this thread.

Yet you called anyone concerned about tax money as azzholes.

Perhaps your remark about foodstamps is just your own guilt?


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Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by Blackheart
Just as none was ever shown me by you.


You allow no room for it.

Nobody was calling you out, or even mentioned you in this thread.

Yet you called anyone concerned about tax money as azzholes.

Perhaps your remark about foodstamps is just your own guilt?
Never collected a food stamp in my life azzhole. And as usual you were wrong about the percentage spent on domestic social programs. The budget for fiscal year 2017 shows 25% for PENSIONS {figures} and 21% for defense. It isn't neccesary to list any more to show that welfare programs couldn't possibly comprise 60% of the budget. Welfare is listed at 9% and health care at 28%. I suppose a good bit of that health care money goes to the same folks collecting those govt. PENSIONS.

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