Mike Waltz faces the Senate opposite the Signal Chat

Washington (AP) – Mike Waltz On Tuesday, a picture for legislators painted on how the United Nations as the USA – its biggest donor – checked their support and chose “back to the basics” under a Trump administration to “make great things” again.

To be to be confirmed by the Senate during his hearing US ambassador in the United NationsWaltz was the priorities of his bosses – President Donald Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio-von to carry out larger reforms to the 80-year-old world authority.

It was the first time that Senator Waltz has been able to grill since his time Trump's national security advisor displaced In May, after incorrectly added a journalist to a private signal chat Discuss sensitive military plans. He denied on Tuesday that he was removed from the post while he explained his plans to bring “America first” to the UN

“We should have a place in the world where everyone can speak – where China, Russia, Europe and the developing countries can come together and solve conflicts,” Waltz told the Senate Committee on the United Nations, “but after 80 years she changed from his cereal mission of the Peace Founder.”

The UN follows its own reforms while the Republican administration has spent the last six months Mass detachments in the Foreign Ministry.

On the agenda for Waltz, China's influence fight the US financing of UN agencies with “often double and wasteful mandates” and the roots, which Waltz called as deep Anti -Semitism Within the UN system.

The UN contribution is the last one that is filled out Trump's cabinet the following months of delay, including The withdrawal of the previous candidate.

Democrats criticize Waltz about the signal chat

The signal episode in Waltz, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and other high-ranking civil servants have not been criticized intensively for more than an hour for more than an hour.

It was announced in March that Waltz added A to A to A ATLANTIC Jeffrey Goldberg Private text chain On a non -classified messaging app with which the planning for strikes against Houthi militant in Yemen was discussed.

“We both know that signal is not an appropriate and safe way to communicate highly sensitive information,” said Democratic Senator Chris Coons from Delaware, who is the first to raise the problem.

He added that Waltz shared “demonstrably sensitive information” in an inappropriate way. With democratic Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia, it called “an amateur train”.

Waltz, a former Member of the Congress in Florida, said that the chat had fulfilled the government's cyber security standards, “not shared a classified information” and the military still carried out an ongoing examination.

The Democratic Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey described this by Waltz and other administrative officials as “lack of accountability”.

“I saw this hearing and was really disappointed,” said Booker. “What worried me about her nomination right from the start is that you don't just get up and take responsibility for mistakes you made.”

The United Nations faces major changes

If this were confirmed, Waltz would have a big change to the UN at a moment. The world body is Roll back from Trump's decision To reduce foreign help – Effects on humanitarian aid organizations – and it calculates with the US financing cuts for the United Nations annual budget.

In view of the financial instability, the UN has spent months Submit jobs and consolidate projects While he starts fighting long -delayed reforms. The united nations also confronts growing frustration about what Critics describe as a lack of efficiency And power to deliver his mandate, to end conflicts.

“With Waltz at the top, the United Nations will have what I consider the last chance to demonstrate their actual value for the United States,” said the Republican sen. Mike Lee From Utah. “Instead of progressive political virtuous signaling, the Security Council has the chance to demonstrate its value, teach disputes and mediation business.”

Waltz said that UN revenues have “quadrupled” over the past 20 years, but that it does not correspond with increasing peace.

“The United States must ensure that every foreign aid collar and every contribution to an international organization, especially the United Nations, draws a straight and direct line for a convincing national US interest,” said Waltz.

He said that the government's diplomatic strategy would concentrate on reducing the costs in such a way, which he called as “waste, fraud and abuse that are endemic for the UN system”.

Waltz also accused the UN, “penetrating anti -Semitism”. He said that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, promotes “anti -Semitic hatred” in its schools in Gaza.

UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres appointed a British human rights activist on Tuesday to carry out a strategic review of the Unrwa.

Israel has claimed that 19 of the around 13,000 Urwa employees in Gaza took part in attacks on October 7, 2023 that started the war. Unrwa said that after an internal UN examination, it released nine workers. Israel later claimed that around 100 other Palestinians in Gaza were the Hamas members, but the United Nations did not provide any evidence of the United Nations.

Waltz is still on the salary statement of the White House

Waltz has spent the past few months in the White House's salary statement, even though he was handled as a national security advisor. The latest list of the white house's salaries on July 1, Waltz as a consultant, which earns an annual salary from 195,200 US dollars.

An official of the White House, who granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said Waltz remained in order to “ensure smooth and successful transition in view of the extreme meaning of the role of the NSA”.

Senator Jacky Rosen, a democrat from Nevada, asked why Waltz was still paid by the government.

“During this year, you (claims) have made that you would emerge at the United Nations if you have confirmed waste and unnecessary overhead. So can you confirm whether you have received a salary from the White House since you were released as NSA?”

Waltz denied the fact that he had been released and said that he was paid as a consultant, “a number of important activities”.

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Amiri reported on the United Nations. The authors of Associated Press, Edith M. Lederer from the UN and Seung Min Kim in Washington, contributed to this report.