Mike Waltz
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We've got a clean house.
We've been dozing.
We've been reforming.
One other statistic that I'll throw at you.
We've been on the job a couple of months and obviously the president the first year into his term.
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.
So we're cutting, we're doging, we're going to get them back to basics in line with the president's vision.
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
carry out that doctrine and create an America first, you know, peace presidency across the country or across the world?
Yeah, look, again, we've got to clean it up and we've got a clean house.
But it is a place where other countries can and should contribute.
It's a place where everybody can and should try to work things out diplomatically first.
before you have any kind of conflict.
And importantly, you have all these global standard setting bodies from AI to space to shipping.
We don't want them working against us.
We want them working for American industries and American businesses.
Yeah.
And it sounds like you're, you know, putting your best effort to give a good faith effort there.
But at the same time, you've had your own drama.
I mean, I remember the Cuban ambassador making a show out of disrupting one of your speeches.