Mike Waltz

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

And others are going to come in and try to get a control of these gangs and get control of the situation.

We're actually we've rebranded it to call it the gang suppression force and gave it given them much more of an offensive mandate.

So whether it's places like Haiti or the absolute humanitarian crisis, that is Sudan or.

the President Trump's peace plan in Gaza.

We're now going to get an international force in there to keep the peace in Gaza.

We got our hostages out.

The UN blessed President Trump's peace plan.

So sharing the burden and having a mechanism where everyone can come in and do that is also important.

We've just got to get it back focused on those peacekeeping and peace enforcement