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Posted on 01/18/2026 11:24:30 AM PST by DFG
US ambassadors have taken a chainsaw to the United Nations budget as part of President Trump’s mandate to have the world organization “get back to basics.”
US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz and Management and Reform Ambassador Jeffrey Bartos told The Post they helped reduce the entire UN budget by $570 million — and America’s portion of that payment to the international governing body by around $126 million.
“The UN has agreed to the first real budget cuts – actual real cuts for the first time in modern history, pretty much since the founding of the organization,” Waltz recently told The Post. “They’ve never seen anything like it.
“It makes this organization smaller, less duplicative, more efficient, and cuts the fat,” said Waltz, a former Trump national security adviser and ex-Republican congressman.
Bartos noted that the effort “all ties back to the president’s vision and his charge to all of us to get the reform, get the UN back to basics and to get it fit for purpose.”
Waltz and Bartos talked to The Post about their success in getting nations to cut the 2026 UN budget by roughly 15.2% from the previous year, while defending the relevance of the international body.
The fresh cuts comprised a $110 million decrease in funding for the UN Secretariat that handles the international organization’s day-to-day operations, a $160 million dip in funding for field missions and a $300 million haircut across the board to the previously bloated budget.
The US ambassadors boasted that the cost-cutting was on top of the elimination of 2,900 bureaucratic posts at the UN.
Since the US pays about 22% of the UN’s annual budget, the total reduction in taxpayer savings amounts to around $126 million.
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It’s just more looting of the taxpayers...The question is, why ITF is the U.N. on our soil?
Agree... Or charge them $250m per year rent or get out.
It’s a start. I’m all about cutting the U.S. portion of the budget to zero.
Not positive but I think Rockefeller gave them the facility.
Yup—every nickel spent on the UN hurts us.
We are financing our enemies.
How many homeless people can live in that building?
That describes the USA today. We invite satanic mongrels here who overpower some of our cities based upon our Freedom of Religion creed. First thing they do is implement their law which says no religion but theirs is allowed. (Sharia)
We have a death wish. "Be careful what you wish for....."
Walz sucking up to Trump by quoting him?
“They’ve never seen anything like it.”
People like Rockefeller never gave away anything away without expecting favors, influence, kickbacks etc...
Those mad men are tempting World War III.
“The question is, why ITF is the U.N. on our soil?”
A lot of it is in Geneva.
Yup. Zero sounds right to me too. Why pay ads loans to hate us?
“assclowns” NOT ad loans. Sheesh!
HOW MANY US VETERANS CAN LIVE THERE.?????
THEY DESERVE IT MORE.
Rockefeller gave then the land deed it to the UN
What about cutting the budgets for the innumerable UN organizations such as ILO, UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP … and on an on …
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