U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz explained how President Trump and his team are using the leverage of Americans’ tax dollars to force reforms to the UN—and that the Secretary General has agreed to cut his own budget by 15 percent.

Axar.az informs in a lengthy exclusive interview with Breitbart, Waltz said:

“The President is withholding American funding until we see the reforms. We haven’t done that since Jesse Helms did it in 1999—it’s been 25 years. President Trump has done it, and in just the month that I’ve been here, we have a 15 percent cut to the overall UN budget. We have an 18 percent cut to their overall personnel. We have a 25 percent cut to their global peacekeeping force. The Secretary General has put forth a reform plan called the UN80—it’s the 80th anniversary of the UN—where he’s going to consolidate a bunch of these out-of-control agencies. He’s going to cut the overhead in the bureaucracy. We are going to give the UN tough love. I think we’re going to save it from itself in many ways, and we’re going to drive change, and the President knows best on how to, how to use that leverage, and my job is to actually push the UN to execute.”