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

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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/