talk to reporters, this wasn t worth the cost of alienating the united states, the palestinian throwing a temper tantrum, get back to acting like adults. jillian: it came out the us negotiated a $285 million cut in the un budget for the next year, how big a deal do you think that is? it is a big deal on its own, $285 billion here or there begins to add up, a big deal on its own but even more significantly this shows there hasn t been a backlash to the way the us approached our embassy in jerusalem. we heard everywhere, the us is going to be isolated but since the vote happened ambassador haley has shepherded through two different resolutions, one on north korea, one on foreign fighters, we got votes that were
expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected. when a nation is singled out for attack in this organization, that nation is disrespected. once more, that nation is asked to pay for the privilege of being disrespected. the latest united nations reduction is following another u.n. budget cuts burned by the u.s. the u.n. peacekeeping mission which has separate funding slashed its $8 billion budget by $600 million. washington still picks up the largest portion of thehe peacekeeping tab, up to billion dollars a year. doug? doug: david lee miller in new york tonight. thank you, david beard there will be one other embassy in jerusalem. guatemala says it will move its embassy of their the central american nation has long had the close ties to israel for a chinese media claims 10,000 people died in the tiananmen
good to see you. president trump is hitting the united nations right where it hurts, and the wallace. u.s. is taking almost three and a million dollars away from its annual donation to the world body which condemned the administration s decision to move the american embassy in israel. david lee miller has details. the united nations has agreed to a budget cut back following negotiations. president trump, a u.n. critic, has said the world organization is mismanaged. while the united nations on the regular budget has increased by 140% and its staff is more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing the results in line with his investment. nikki haley says the u.n. budget of 5.4 billion will be reduced by $285 million. no specifics on how the money in the new budget would be saved.
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28% of the peacekeeping budget. that means american taxpayers shell out $3 billion a year for the u.n. and ambassador nikki haley is trying to streamline some of the peacekeeping operations. they ve dropped some. saved about $500 million in order to save money and bring more transparency and responsibility and accountability to the u.n. operations. it is important to note that russia and china are not here. china pays 8% of the u.n. budget. russia just 3%. that means we pay about seven times more than russia does for the u.n. operations and although the ambassador haley boasted that 128 nations have signed onto the reform plan there are 193 nations. 65 nations don t agree with it so far. bill: full potential of the u.n. has not been reached due to bureaucracy and mismanagement is the message from the president so far.