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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

So that's the kind of reform agenda that we're driving here.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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.

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

I don't know about you, Brent.

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

When I land, we fly internationally.

Morning Wire
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.

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

We want...

Morning Wire
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.

Morning Wire
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

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.