Trump's UN ambassador pick Elise Stefanik could save taxpayers millions if taps Musk-Ramaswamy 'DOGE'

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY., volition soon look earlier the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to question confirmation for her relation successful President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet arsenic the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. 

Several erstwhile diplomats who spoke to Fox News Digital accidental that an contiguous interest for an incoming U.N. ambassador should beryllium reigning successful U.S. expenditures astatine the satellite body. Outflows to the enactment grew from $11.6 cardinal successful 2020 to $18.1 cardinal successful 2022, erstwhile the U.S. covered one-third of the full U.N. budget.

A erstwhile elder U.S. diplomat told Fox News Digital connected information of anonymity that, with "many antithetic tasks successful beforehand of her, [Stefanik] volition request to beryllium selective astir what she truly wants to pursue." The diplomat cited main areas of interest arsenic cronyism and corruption, and employing much Americans astatine the U.N.

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He said the U.N. is "an enactment that doesn’t align often with U.S. overseas policy," which makes it "kind of weird to beryllium pouring successful each this money," and past "seeing a batch of anti-American sentiment and enactment of causes that we instrumentality contented with."

Anne Bayefsky, manager of the Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, called for Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, "to halt backing for the U.N. that is wholly antithetical to American interests. This contiguous cost-saver of billions ought to beryllium low-hanging fruit. At the General Assembly, the United States has but 1 ballot of 193 subordinate states and is routinely and overwhelmingly outvoted by an undemocratic, anti-American, and anti-Israel mob connected cardinal issues. But arsenic soon arsenic we lose, we crook astir and wage for each the lawfare and antisemitic schemes those precise aforesaid resolutions concoct."

"DOGE - for which the wealth is the substance - should person nary specified inhibitions erstwhile it comes to payer dollars being utilized to money unsafe and lethal U.N. output," Bayefsky said. "The days of the United Nations arsenic a planetary money-launderer for terrorists and antisemites dressed up arsenic quality rights experts and refugees request to halt close now." 

A spokesperson for Rep. Stefanik, erstwhile asked astir her plans for reforming the U.N. if confirmed, told Fox News Digital that "Elise Stefanik is profoundly honored to gain President Trump’s information to service arsenic United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She looks guardant to earning the enactment of her Senate colleagues and moving done the confirmation process. Once confirmed, she stands acceptable to propulsion for needed betterment and beforehand President Trump’s America first, bid done spot nationalist information docket connected the satellite signifier connected time 1 astatine the United Nations." 

To assistance the betterment effort, Hugh Dugan, erstwhile National Security Council advisor connected planetary organizations and U.S. diplomat astatine the satellite body, created DOGE-U.N., which helium says mimics the "methodology and purpose" of DOGE. 

While Dugan said that DOGE-U.N. is "a standalone resource," helium explained that helium hopes it tin beryllium a instrumentality for collaboration and "save [DOGE] immoderate of the upfront analytical work" astir which outlays request to beryllium examined much closely.

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Dugan is moving to "identify immoderate practicable aboriginal wins" that amusement "the imaginable for making the U.N. much businesslike and cost-saving." This includes reviewing the U.N. procurement manual "to debar corruption and malfeasance" and "make definite that there’s a consciousness of consequences attached to each procurement matters connected behalf of the American taxpayer." Dugan said that DOGE-U.N. volition besides look into "where and however the U.N. has been evolving into its ain Deep State, and much oregon little ignoring and overlooking the subordinate states’ desires and volition and request for ratio and accountable assets management." 

The U.S. "can’t beryllium passive shareholders" successful the U.N., Dugan said. "We request to make amended competency successful Washington, amended guidance, much dedicated resources to these adust matters, due to the fact that if the U.S. doesn’t amusement up with these questions and concerns and criticisms, nary different state will."

Though Dugan says that DOGE-U.N. is "trying to instrumentality with attacking inefficiencies," helium said determination is the anticipation of addressing backing to programs that are "impossible to enactment from a argumentation constituent of view." To that end, Dugan said that "strong accountability" for the secretary-general’s usage of U.S. resources is captious to guarantee the U.N. does not "play a ammunition crippled with our contributions and proceed to money adjacent those things we don’t like." 

While U.S. departments person autarkic inspectors wide who hunt for discarded and fraud, Dugan noted that the secretary-general directs the U.N.’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), which means that the secretary-general tin take whether the findings of U.N. investigations should beryllium "publicized oregon kept quiet."

Peter Gallo, formerly an researcher with the OIOS, told Fox News Digital that the autarkic oversight relation lacks autarkic oversight and said that the investigative relation should beryllium taken "out of the hands of the U.N." Gallo said that "in the contiguous term," helium would suggest making investigations "subject to autarkic oversight, and each dollar they spent taxable to review." 

The grade to which employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA) person been affiliated with panic organizations is particularly concerning to Gallo, who says investigations into the contented person been neither transparent nor independent.

Dugan said helium believes that stepping backmost from the enactment would beryllium counterintuitive, adding that China is "more than consenting to swoop successful and capable immoderate enactment vacuum we don’t capable and they volition usage that accidental to beforehand their ain hegemonic ambitions."

Dugan said helium hopes that DOGE-U.N.’s findings volition "serve the administration" and "help them place valuations that person been overlooked, and principally to assistance america make the assets that the satellite needs truthful that China cannot abscond with it."

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A caller taxable of statement astatine the U.N. illustrates the divergence of the enactment from U.S. interests. 

In January 2024, the U.S. ended contributions to UNRWA until March 2025 aft grounds emerged that members of the bureau participated successful the attacks of Oct. 7, which killed 1,200, including 45 Americans.

In October, the Israeli Knesset banned UNRWA from operating wrong Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, fixed mounting grounds of Hamas infiltration successful UNRWA.

In December, a solution came earlier the Fifth Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, which is liable for budgetary and fiscal matters. The solution suggested that the International Court of Justice make an advisory sentiment connected Israel’s UNRWA ban, citing Israel’s "obligations…to guarantee and facilitate the unhindered proviso of urgently needed supplies" and "of basal services and humanitarian improvement assistance."

The U.S. voted against the resolution. However, connected a related vote astir funding the estimated $298,900 required to transportation retired the resolution, the U.S. simply abstained.

When asked astir the discrepancy successful its votes, a U.S. Department of State spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the U.S. "has consistently demonstrated absorption to this petition for an advisory opinion, including voting against the applicable General Assembly resolution. The fund is simply a abstracted matter.  The relation of the U.N. General Assembly’s Fifth Committee is not to second-guess mandates authorized by different U.N. bodies." 

Bayefsky told Fox News Digital that the State Department’s remark represents a "twisted, indefensible strategy" by the Biden administration. "When it comes to spending our wealth via the U.N.'s fund committee, allegedly the U.S. relation is not to ‘second-guess.'"