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Haley: Trump’s Proposed Cuts Have Sent ‘Shockwaves’ Through the UN
breitbart.com ^ | 6/27/2017 | Adam Shaw

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalism; nitalowey; ny; un; unitednations; winning
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To: Billthedrill

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.


41 posted on 06/28/2017 10:26:57 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Blue helmet target practice salute!


42 posted on 06/28/2017 10:28:56 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: rrrod

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.


43 posted on 06/28/2017 10:31:37 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Psalm 73

“find value” at the UN.

She would have better luck drilling for oil at the UN site!


44 posted on 06/28/2017 10:35:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: rktman

YAY!


45 posted on 06/28/2017 10:36:10 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: KevinB

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.


46 posted on 06/28/2017 11:02:36 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: rktman
“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.

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.

47 posted on 06/28/2017 11:03:28 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: TakebackGOP
"I don’t think she should have been chosen as the UN Amb."

I don't think she should have been chosen for anything.
But at least it removed her from the governorship of South Car.

48 posted on 06/28/2017 11:06:43 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: Psalm 73
Well the term "pit bull" might apply to Haley but she sold out many of her supporters in SC and was marching in NYC "Pride Parade" recently!

Was she marching with the pansies or the bull dykes?

49 posted on 06/28/2017 11:11:46 AM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: rktman

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!


50 posted on 06/28/2017 11:15:03 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: rktman

How about we just quit the UN. You cannot control a hellish teen by grounding it here and there.


51 posted on 06/28/2017 11:18:16 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: zerosix
"...sold out many of her supporters in SC and was marching in NYC "Pride Parade" recently..."

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.

52 posted on 06/28/2017 11:25:49 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: rktman

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?


53 posted on 06/28/2017 11:31:11 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: rktman

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


54 posted on 06/28/2017 11:49:27 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: Psalm 73
"....but being John Bolton II is"

From your mouth to God's ears!

55 posted on 06/28/2017 12:09:30 PM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: Kahuna

We could use that building as a mental institution for depressed libs


56 posted on 06/28/2017 3:49:08 PM PDT by genghis
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To: Psalm 73

Goodness gracious the donald has made a yuuuuge number of great pics


57 posted on 06/28/2017 3:51:09 PM PDT by genghis
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To: Psalm 73; Safetgiver; Parley Baer; jonno; USS Alaska

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


58 posted on 06/28/2017 4:52:31 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Kahuna

>>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.


59 posted on 06/28/2017 6:59:53 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: USS Alaska

>> 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.


60 posted on 06/28/2017 7:05:10 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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