Hold the United Nations accountable by cutting funding, tying assistance to reforms, and withholding taxpayer dollars until real reforms are made.

Mike Bost · Illinois · Republican

policy impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 89%

Occurrences

Holding the United Nations accountable by cutting funding, tying assistance to reforms, and withholding taxpayer dollars until real reforms are made

Bost backed UN funding cuts and conditional assistance tied to reforms.

BOST BACKS RESPONSIBLE FUNDING PACKAGE TO SECURE THE NATION AND REIN IN SPENDING | Press Releases | Congressman Mike Bost
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Evidence

Recent News: Defense Subcommittee Advances FY27 Appropriations Bill; Committee Approves FY27 Homeland Security Appropriations Act.

The committee's June public activity in the lookback window is on Defense and Homeland Security, not State/UN funding, which points to no fresh public progress on the UN-accountability promise during the window.

unresolved same_term

House Committee on Appropriations - Republicans
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April 28, 2026: the FY27 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs bill was approved by the committee 35 to 27.

House appropriators advanced the FY27 State/foreign-operations vehicle, which is the main legislative channel for funding limits and conditions tied to UN accountability.

partial same_term A for effort

National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs | House Committee on Appropriations - Republicans
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The draft bars payments to the UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA, and UN member dues from covered funds.

The draft bill contains concrete UN pressure mechanisms that match the claim's core theory of holding the UN accountable through funding restrictions and conditions, but it is still only a draft/markup-stage document.

partial same_term A for effort

FY27 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee Markup
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

House Republicans advanced an FY27 State/foreign-operations appropriations bill during Bost's current term that used the promised mechanism: restricting or withholding some UN-related funding, including bars on payments to the UN Human Rights Council, UNRWA, and certain UN dues. That is meaningful same-term progress toward the pledge. But the evidence only shows committee-stage markup and approval, not final enactment, and it does not show that Bost personally delivered the full promised outcome of cutting funding and tying assistance to broad UN reforms in law. Because the policy was materially advanced but not completed, this is partial rather than delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 85%