Ambassador Haley: US Will Slash UN Budget 2018

Posted by Tina

Last week US Ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the consequences for voting against the United States in it’s sovereign decision to move it’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would include a slash in our UN budget “by over $285 million.” She also warned that “further reductions would follow:

“We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of,” Haley said in a statement, adding that the “inefficiency and overspending” of the organization is well-known. The timing of her statement sends a clear message.

For many years, Uncle Sap has been paying 22% of the body’s annual operating budget, costing us $1.2 billion in 2017-2018. We also pay 28.5% of the $6.8 billion annual cost of peacekeeping operations.

After the vote, Haley reminded the assembly that the U.S. was “by far the single largest contributor to the UN” and would remember the vote “when we are called upon to once again make the world’s largest contribution to the United Nations, and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.”

“I must also say today: when we make generous contributions to the UN, we also have expectation that we will be respected,” she said. “What’s more, we are being asked to pay for the dubious privileges of being disrespected.”

Haley added: “If our investment fails, we have an obligation to spend our investment in other ways … The United States will remember this day.”

Haley is proving to be a strong, fearless leader at the UN. It’s about time the UN was challenged to operate in more respectful, efficient manner.

(Presidential candidate Nikki Haley 2024? Works for me!)