Defying Trump, Senate panel approves funding for UN climate body The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill on Thursday evening that includes $10 million to help fund the United Nations’ climate change body that oversees the Paris Climate Agreement, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to stop funding it. The 30-member Senate panel, which allocates federal funds to various government agencies and organizations, approved a $51 billion spending bill for the State Department and foreign operations, which included an amendment to continue funding the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as the scientific body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The amendment passed even though the 2018 budget proposal that Trump, a Republican, introduced earlier this year eliminated support of any mechanism to finance climate change projects in developing countries and organizations. The United States is still a party to the 1992 UNFCCC, which oversees the Paris agreement, although Trump announced in June that he would withdraw the nation from the global climate pact and cease funding the Green Climate Fund, which supports clean energy and climate adaptation projects in vulnerable countries. The United States has usually contributed to around 20 percent of the UNFCCC budget.
Note that the house version still does not include funding for it- so funding for it is not settled until that is reconciled. I have not followed the structure of the bill so I am not sure whether trump can veto it or whether that would be a line item veto that he cannot do. Nevertheless, it is not settled. Sometimes other higher priority expenses come up along the way, eh? It is also possible that strategically the U.S. may want to fund it to continue to have a seat at the table. Not something the lefties want.
First we need the initial funding to build the wall from Congress. Otherwise there is no reason to discuss a wire transfer tax to pay the government back.
Plus, Trump is going to put solar panels on the wall and pipe the electricity to San Francisco to power everyone's electric garlic press and to charge their Tesla so that will be a good thing too. Sure, the libs will want more wall than trump before this is over. It's all good.
1.Have Trump get that through congress(good luck with that) 2.Subtract the economic damages from Mexico's retaliation/tax they levy on The US etc from trumps wire tax