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Mike Waltz

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194 total appearances

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

Either to end wars or prevent wars.

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

I want that American led and in the United States, not in places like Beijing or Moscow.

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

But I'm 100 percent on board.

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

We've got a clean house.

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

We've been dozing.

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

We've been reforming.

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

One other statistic that I'll throw at you.

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

We've been on the job a couple of months and obviously the president the first year into his term.

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

The UN has already agreed to cut over 2,600 bureaucratic positions, bureaucrats out of its headquarters, a 15% overall budget cut, and a quarter, 25% of its peacekeepers around the world.

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

So we're cutting, we're doging, we're going to get them back to basics in line with the president's vision.

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

Yeah, I mean, you know the Trump foreign policy doctrine better than anyone you've been there from day one, and it sounds like you think that the United Nations can actually be a place where you help

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

carry out that doctrine and create an America first, you know, peace presidency across the country or across the world?

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

Yeah, look, again, we've got to clean it up and we've got a clean house.

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

But it is a place where other countries can and should contribute.

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

It's a place where everybody can and should try to work things out diplomatically first.

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

before you have any kind of conflict.

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

And importantly, you have all these global standard setting bodies from AI to space to shipping.

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

We don't want them working against us.

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

We want them working for American industries and American businesses.

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

Yeah.