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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by rc_mob on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:15AM (#44648062)
What is with you people forgetting that Trump was president in 2018 and not Obama.

Why are you attributing Trumps actions to Obama. Stop it. Your comment is wholly dishonest.

Obama did not want to leave UNESCO. Period. Full stop.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by hersko on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:23AM (#44648240)
"The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama..." what part about this is wrong?
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by robotnixon on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:32AM (#44648410)
It's misleading. Obama tried to maintain funding UNESCO:

"In 2011, the United States stopped funding Unesco because of what was then a forgotten, 15-year-old amendment mandating a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts Palestine as a full member. Various efforts by President Barack Obama to overturn the legal restriction narrowly failed in Congress, and the United States lost its vote at the organization after two years of nonpayment, in 2013."

https://web.archive.org/web/20220503183152/https://www.nytim...

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