Posted on 06/28/2017 9:15:36 AM PDT by rktman
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended the Trump administration’s plan to drastically cut America’s spending on the UN Tuesday. She told a House subcommittee that the proposed cuts had sent “shockwaves” through the body — and that such cuts had put the UN “on notice.”
“My job was to go the UN and find value,” Haley told a House appropriations subcommittee. “We want to make sure the U.S. voice is strong, use it for negotiations in every way possible, to push foreign policy… but at the same time the UN has fat around the edges.”
Haley faced tough opposition from Democrats, and even Republicans, who expressed concern at the drastic nature of some of the cuts being proposed to U.S. funding of the UN’s various agencies. The U.S. is commonly the top funder of most budgets, even those with a distinctly anti-American bias.
Democrats, however, blasted the cuts, with Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) calling them “far-reaching and catastrophic.”
“Frankly I cannot understand how this administration intends to influence the UN agenda, help those most in need, and advance UN reform if it disengages and severely cuts our contributions,” Lowey said.
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When did they start a push to bring back DDT to eradicate the mosquito problem confronting the world? There’s a special on Discovery soon about the threat posed by them. Uh, hey dumbasses. We HAD the solution but the envirowankers have put millions at risk and cost millions of lives already based on......political pressure. Thanks assclowns.
Blue helmet target practice salute!
LOL. All members of the un need shock therapy for their depression over cuts in funding. These pampered bums need tossed out of this country. The only thing the un is useful for is shutting it self down.
“find value” at the UN.
She would have better luck drilling for oil at the UN site!
YAY!
I won’t be happy until somebody cuts Nikki’s job and she can go back to being a housewife or whatever she was before trying to destroy SC...
What a lightweight.
I'll tell you how, Nitwit Lowey: Power of the purse string. Just an off the top of my head example: If country X needs new water treatment facilities, instead of the US giving the thieves at the UN big bucks, go directly to Country X and make a deal where US companies build the plant.
I don't think she should have been chosen for anything.
But at least it removed her from the governorship of South Car.
Was she marching with the pansies or the bull dykes?
The U.N. with its 50+ mooselimb countries regularly vote in block against American and of course Isreali interests.
Oh, hell yeah.
Let’s keep giving money to this?
Maybe NOT!
How about we just quit the UN. You cannot control a hellish teen by grounding it here and there.
Understand. But she's not being tasked with guiding SC or taking a stand for Biblical values (both very worthy tasks) - her job is to kick some butt at the UN, and she appears to be doing it well.
Maybe being a Governor wasn't her calling, but being John Bolton II might be.
Rep. Nita Lowey, “Frankly I cannot understand how this administration intends to influence the UN agenda...”
Does anyone have the time to list all the things Lowey doesn’t understand?
Is there anything wrong with expecting the rest of the members of the UN to pay a fair share? Considering the USA pays the lion share only to have everyone vote against us on nearly everything. Absolutely no value for the money spent
From your mouth to God's ears!
We could use that building as a mental institution for depressed libs
Goodness gracious the donald has made a yuuuuge number of great pics
Nikki Haley: ‘We absolutely need’ Mueller’s Russia investigation
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/nikki-haley-robert-mueller-russia-investigation-238668
Nikki Haley: ‘This election has turned my stomach,’ still voting for Trump
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/28/nikki-haley-this-election-has-turned-my-stomach-st/
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Says Russia ‘Certainly’ Involved in U.S. Elections
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-un-envoy-russia-involved-elections-578040
>>Would love to see President Trump “cut” our entire contribution to zero charge the UN 500 Billion dollars a year for the lease in NY. We get nothing out of the UN that we can’t do better on our own.
Perfectly stated and thank you for posting it! The UN is the tip of the spear being yielded by the proponents of the NWO, which in reality is nothing less than a globalist dictatorship intended to control the thoughts and deeds of every person on the planet.
>> Niki has bigger balls than most pubbie senators {of either gender...err, I mean ANY gender, including genderation X}.
Agreed, but what concerns me about her is that it seems she has a tendency to be somewhat of a flip-flopper. Am I wrong about that? If so, I would be happy to hear it.
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