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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We've walked away from WHO, the World Health Organization.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
UNRWA, the UN agency in Gaza that's been completely infiltrated by Hamas.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We walked out of it and defunded that too.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
The so-called human rights councils that cater to countries like North Korea and Venezuela and Iran, we've walked away from that.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
So it's really about focusing our effort on the parts that align with the America First agenda and defunding and walking away from the rest of it and the nonsense.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Case in point, there's seven UN agencies focused on climate change.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
Sit aside the debate of it.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
At most, you need one, if not none.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
But you definitely don't need seven.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
So that's the kind of reform agenda that we're driving here.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We're defunding all kinds of these agencies, again, led by the president with an America First agenda.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
But there are core pieces that we do need to focus on, case in point.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
There is an agency that regulates how we do space, telecommunications, global shipping.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
There's one that actually sets standards for civil aviation around the world.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
I don't know about you, Brent.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
When I land, we fly internationally.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
I want everybody speaking English, landing the planes the same way, the mechanics train the same way.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
We want...
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
them aligned with our standards, not China or Russia's standards.
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Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation
And I guess the last argument that I would make is, again, if we're a peace party, this is a peace president, we should have one place in the world where everybody can talk, where everyone can come together and at least try to hammer things out using diplomacy