Trump’s new UN Ambassador could save taxpayers millions

A number of diplomats say that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Elise Stefanik should work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to rein in the money America pays to the U.N.

As it currently stands, U.S. expenditures to the U.N. grew from $11.6 billion in 2020 to $18.1 billion (or one-third of the total U.N. budget) by 2022.

According to Anne Bayefsky of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, Stefanik’s best bet would be to team up with DOGE “to halt funding for the U.N. that is totally antithetical to American interests.”

Funding like this:

“This immediate cost-saver of billions ought to be low-hanging fruit,” she told Fox News. “At the General Assembly, the United States has but one vote of 193 member states and is routinely and overwhelmingly outvoted by an undemocratic, anti-American, and anti-Israel mob on key issues.”

“But as soon as we lose, we turn around and pay for all the lawfare and antisemitic schemes those very same resolutions concoct. DOGE — for which the money is the matter — should have no such inhibitions when it comes to taxpayer dollars being used to fund dangerous and lethal U.N. output. The days of the United Nations as a global money-launderer for terrorists and antisemites dressed up as human rights experts and refugees need to stop right now,” she added.

The good news is the beginning of the end for wasteful U.S. spending is already in motion courtesy of the creation of DOGE-U.N., a “standalone resource” designed to aid in DOGE’s work (as in the official DOGE).

The brainchild of former U.S. diplomat Hugh Dugan, DOGE-U.N. is, according to him, specifically geared to “save [DOGE] some of the upfront analytical work” about which U.N. expenditures need to be further scrutinized.

Dugan told Fox News that he’s already begun working to “identify some practicable early wins” that show “the potential for making the U.N. more efficient and cost-saving.”

These wins include reviewing the U.N. procurement manual “to avoid corruption and malfeasance” and “make sure that there’s a sense of consequences attached to all procurement matters on behalf of the American taxpayer.”

They also include looking into “where and how the U.N. has been evolving into its own Deep State, and more or less ignoring and overlooking the member states’ desires and will and need for efficiency and accountable resource management.”

America can no longer “be passive shareholders” in the U.N., Dugan said.

“We need to develop better competency in Washington, better guidance, more dedicated resources to these dry matters, because if the U.S. doesn’t show up with these questions and concerns and criticisms, no other country will,” he added.

True.

That being said, DOGE-U.N.’s primary focus will be on “attacking inefficiencies,” according to Dugan, though he vowed that there’s also a possibility of addressing funding to programs that are “impossible to support from a policy point of view.”

With that in mind, he also said that “strong accountability” for the U.N. secretary-general’s use of U.S. resources is mandatory to ensure the globalist body doesn’t “play a shell game with our contributions and continue to fund even those things we don’t like.”

Especially because the U.N. secretary-general currently enjoys far too much power and privilege — so much so that they have full control over whether the findings of internal U.N. oversight investigations remain hidden or are released publicly.

Peter Gallo, a former investigator with the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), explained it simply by noting that the U.N.’s ostensible independent oversight function lacks actual independent oversight.

That is why oversight functions should be taken “out of the hands of the U.N.” and given instead to a genuinely independent third party, he added.

Vivek Saxena

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