Trump's UN ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik says he sees 'great promise' in the United Nations

FIRST ON FOX: President Trump sees "great promise" successful the United Nations, according to his U.N. ambassador nominee Elise Stefanik, who said she would bring "reform" to the organization.

"When discussing this information with President Trump, the President shared with maine that helium sees large committedness successful the United Nations if it focuses connected its founding ngo of planetary bid and security. President Trump has agelong advocated for bid and nary caller wars," she volition say, according to excerpts of her opening connection for Tuesday's confirmation proceeding earlier the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, obtained by Fox News Digital. 

She volition pledge to enactment Israel – arsenic it faces chronic disapproval for the war successful Gaza – and enactment to guarantee the bureau is utilizing U.S. taxation dollars to beforehand U.S. interests.

"As the satellite faces situation aft crisis, with hostages including Americans inactive held successful Hamas' captivity, to nationalist information challenges ranging from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, it has ne'er been much captious for the United States to pb with spot and motivation clarity," Stefanik plans to say. 

Trump's nominee to beryllium ambassador to the U.N. volition accidental the president sees "great promise" successful the organization. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"As a Member of Congress, I besides recognize profoundly that we indispensable beryllium bully stewards of U.S. payer dollars. The U.S. is the largest contributor to the U.N. by far. Our taxation dollars should not beryllium complicit successful propping up entities that are antagonistic to American interests, antisemitic, oregon engaging successful fraud, corruption, oregon terrorism."

"We indispensable put successful programs that fortify our nationalist information and present results. To summation the efficacy of U.N. programs, we indispensable thrust reform. If confirmed, I volition beryllium the archetypal U.N. Ambassador successful implicit 2 decades to travel straight from Congress – and I person a heavy respect and knowing of the oversight and appropriations relation of the legislative branch. I look guardant to utilizing my beardown House and Senate relationships to present overmuch needed reforms."

After Tuesday's hearing, wherever Stefanik volition beryllium grilled connected her plans for representing the U.S. astatine the U.N., the Foreign Relations Committee volition ballot connected her confirmation earlier it heads to a afloat Senate vote. 

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Stefanik, who presently serves arsenic the House GOP Conference chair, is expected to sail to confirmation successful the U.N. role. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, has already said helium volition ballot for her – they are some beardown Israel supporters. She served connected the Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, but she went viral for her enactment connected the different broadside of the array past twelvemonth erstwhile she questioned assemblage presidents and their policies surrounding pro-Gaza protests during Education Committee hearings.

The U.N. ambassador is a Cabinet-level position, meaning Stefanik volition regularly conscionable with the president to stock updates and suggestions, if confirmed. 

Both Trump and Stefanik person been captious of the U.N., and Trump slashed backing for definite U.N. agencies and programs during his archetypal term. 

Stefanik, who presently serves arsenic the House GOP Conference chair, is expected to sail to confirmation successful a relation to correspond the U.S. astatine the United Nations. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Both Trump and Stefanik person been captious of the U.N., and Trump slashed backing for definite U.N. agencies and programs during his archetypal term. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Founded with a ngo to beforehand planetary peace, improvement and respect for quality rights aft World War II, the U.N. relies connected the U.S. for astir a 3rd of its budget. President Biden accrued U.S. fiscal contributions to the U.N. and its sister agencies, boosting it from $11.6 cardinal successful 2020 to $18.1 cardinal successful 2022.

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The U.S. gave astir 3 times arsenic overmuch that twelvemonth arsenic the next-highest contributors, Germany, astatine $6.8 billion, and Japan, astatine $2.7 billion. 

That magnitude of backing gives a caller medication wiggle country to withhold funds to the U.N. if its planetary interests bash not align with those of the U.S., a conception immoderate Republicans have already pushed for.

Trump volition beryllium successful bureau erstwhile the planetary body elects its adjacent secretary-general successful 2026, and the U.S. volition person veto powerfulness implicit immoderate candidate. 

The U.N. peculiarly relies connected the U.S. for planetary assistance programs.

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In 2022, it provided fractional of each contributions to the World Food Programme, and astir a 3rd of each contributions to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA), and the International Organization for Migration.

And critics person warned that China has infiltrated the bureau – the CCP doubled the fig of its nationals employed astatine the U.N. to astir 15,000 from 2009 to 2021.