Trumps UN ambassador brags about slashing UN peacekeeping budget

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Source: Think Progress

The deep cuts the Trump administration wants to make to the United Nations peacekeeping budget go too far even for Republicans, a number of whom expressed opposition to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley during an appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.

Some of these cuts are massive and just devastating, Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) told Haley, according to Bloomberg. Our leadership is irreplaceable.

Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) described the cuts as severe and criticized the administration for not providing more details about its proposal, which would cut the USs share of the UN peacekeeping budget to about 25 percent of total costs from 28.5 percent currently, and reduce the UNs peacekeeping budget by 37 percent overall.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/nikki-haley-brags-about-united-nations-peacekeeping-budget-cuts-7fc52fd657b9

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I guess she hasn't figured out right along with the idiot with the orange hair, that its " UN Forces at the DMZ in South Korea", like Britain, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, United States and such, for starters are at that zone, and those other countries are saying ------------really, are you that stupid Nikki Haley, we think so

[Javaman]

1. she's a moron. nt

[SummerSnow]

2. That's why he chose her.

[Hortensis]

3. Not stupid at all -- an ambitious and typically corrupt Republican politician.

She's positioning for the presidency, perhaps a cabinet office before, and UN Ambassador gives her resume some foreign policy padding.

[IronLionZion]

5. If Nikki Haley becomes our first female president

[Hortensis]

6. That's almost exactly my reaction, Iron.

[atreides1]

4. Think about it folks?

By reducing funding to UN Peacekeeping operations, the administration opens up the flood gates for conflict! Conflict leads to increased sales for the military industrial complex, here in the US as well as Russia and China!

Peace doesn't help the weapons profiteers, but wars all over the planet does...

[TomVilmer]

7. USA is not pulling its weight on deference...

... like those UN Forces at the DMZ in South Korea are. USA's contribution to the United Nations peacekeeping operations are 73 persons out of a total of 96,865 peacekeepers.
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/contributors/2017/apr17_1.pdf

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Locking - duplicate thread

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141810281 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.