{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-rep-rogers-and-sen-lee-lead-fight-defund-united-nations", "Rep. Roy, Rep. Rogers, and Sen. Lee lead fight to defund the United Nations", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Chip Roy", "R000614", "roy.house.gov", "roy", "https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 On Wednesday, Representative Chip Roy (R-TX-21) alongside Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL-3) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act of 2023.\n\nThis legislation would defund the United Nations and remove the United States from its membership.\n\nRepresentative Roy said, \u201cThis year, the United Nations' corruption, and its despicable, brazen political agenda have been on full display.\n\nFrom UNRWA actively protecting Hamas and acting against our ally Israel, the delayed condemning of Hamas, to China being elected to the \u201cHuman Rights Council,\" to the propagation of climate hysteria, and covering for China's forced abortion and sterilization programs, the UN's decades-old, internal rot once again raises the questions of why the United States is even still a member or why we're wasting billions \u2014 indeed, $12.5 billion in 2021 \u2014 every year on it.\n\nThe UN doesn\u2019t deserve one single dime of American taxpayer money or one bit of our support; we should defund it and leave immediately. I am proud to lead this critical effort alongside Mike Lee and Mike Rogers,\u201d Congressman Roy concluded.\n\n\u201cNo more blank checks for the United Nations. Americans' hard-earned dollars have been funneled into initiatives that fly in the face of our values \u2013enabling tyrants, betraying allies, and spreading bigotry,\" said Senator Lee. \"With the DEFUND Act, we're stepping away from this debacle. If we engage with the UN in the future, it will be on our terms, with the full backing of the Senate and an iron-clad escape clause.\"\n\nRepresentative Rogers said, \u201cThe United Nations routinely proves themselves to be an organization with the lone purpose of legitimizing the propaganda of terrorist organizations and the Chinese Communist Party. Their recent behavior following the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel is shameful and indicative of widespread antisemitism within the organization. For years, I have called on the United States to leave the UN, and I am proud to join my colleagues in introducing legislation that would ensure US taxpayer dollars no longer fund this sham establishment.\u201d\n\nRead full text of the House bill here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-rep-rogers-and-sen-lee-lead-fight-defund-united-nations"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5374450013041496, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}