Mike Waltz
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So, I mean, what is the goal of changing that?
Do you guys still think that the UN can be a force for peace?
Yeah, well, he does.
President Trump does.
I do too.
It absolutely needs reform and reforms at the top of our agenda.
And I get it for folks that say, just walk away, turn out the lights.
The United States pays for a quarter, 25% of everything here.
Here's why I would argue and where the president sees the potential of
I would argue against throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Another fundamental tenet of America First is burden sharing, is other people kind of pulling their weight to establish peace around the world.
And so take, for example, my first Security Council resolution was in Haiti.
Gangs have taken over Haiti.
They're working with the cartels.
They're working with the Venezuelans and others.
They're shipping people, guns, drugs all over, not just the Caribbean, but the Middle East, Europe, onto our soil as well.
The US was trying to take it all on and on its own.
It spent over a billion dollars.
We've now shifted that to the UN, and we'll pay a quarter of what we were paying.
And other countries like Kenya are