WASHINGTON, D.C.–The U.S. may not be getting what it pays for in its membership to the United Nations, because countries that do not share our values are the heads of U.N. agencies, said Sen. Todd Young, in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.

“Today Chinese nationals are at the helm of four U.N. agencies. Americans are the head of only three,” said Young, in opening remarks of the subcommittee hearing. “One of the key issues we hope to explore is the implications for senior Communist Party members leading the United Nations in the agencies.”

Young said the four agencies are the Food and Agriculture Organization; the International Telecommunications Union; the International Civil Aviation Administration and the Industrial Development Organization.

Young said he questions what types of policies they will implement, who they will bring in and whether they will represent the interests of the U.N. and its members or the Communist Party of China.

“It’s incumbent of the United States and our allies to ensure China supports and defends universal values, rather than its own domestic agenda.”

Young questioned the sense of putting representatives of countries that have been cited repeatedly for human rights violations, in charge of or in high influence in the Human Rights Council.

“We should be very concerned about how the United Nations gives a platform to countries like Cuba, Venezuela and China to talk about human rights. Spending time on the council does not reform these bad actors, but rather giving them a larger mouthpiece to share their misguided view of what is considered a human right,” said Young.

He pointed out that the United States is the largest donor to the U.N., paying 22 percent of its total budget and 25 percent of its peacekeeping fund. Young said he believes that for that money, the U.S. should get some return in its values being represented.