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Mike Waltz

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Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

President Trump does.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

I do too.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

It absolutely needs reform and reforms at the top of our agenda.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

And I get it for folks that say, just walk away, turn out the lights.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

The United States pays for a quarter, 25% of everything here.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Here's why I would argue and where the president sees the potential of

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

I would argue against throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Another fundamental tenet of America First is burden sharing, is other people kind of pulling their weight to establish peace around the world.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

And so take, for example, my first Security Council resolution was in Haiti.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Gangs have taken over Haiti.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

They're working with the cartels.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

They're working with the Venezuelans and others.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

They're shipping people, guns, drugs all over, not just the Caribbean, but the Middle East, Europe, onto our soil as well.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

The US was trying to take it all on and on its own.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

It spent over a billion dollars.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We've now shifted that to the UN, and we'll pay a quarter of what we were paying.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

And other countries like Kenya are

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

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

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

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.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

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