Team Trump is Already Kicking Butt at the United Nations

"A UN agency called the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia recently issued a hefty report denouncing Israel's 'apartheid.'

It was written by Richard Falk, a 9/11 truther who in the past also accused America and Israel of responsibility for the Boston Marathon bombing.

Last week, Haley, who's been outspoken about anti-Israel bias since arriving in New York, demanded that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres remove the agency's report from the UN website.

He did. Then the director of that agency, Jordanian national Rima Khalaf, resigned.

And with that, a bit of Israel-bashing was gone.

But fighting the UN's obsession with the Jewish state is just the start.

Haley & Co. are telling Turtle Bay that the days of business as usual are over: No more tweaking at the edges and declaring the United Nations is 'reformed.'

By all means, scrap a biased report written by a kook who somehow keeps showing up on the UN payroll. But then again, who needs ESCWA to begin with?

After all, this agency, comprised of 18 Arab states, contributes little, if any, to humankind.

Why, at a cost of $70 million out of the UN's 'regular; budget, keep it - or, for that matter, some other quite costly and unnecessary UN bodies?

The United States pays $5.4 billion, 22 percent, of the annual UN "regular" budget, much more than any other country. Additionally, US taxpayers fork over $8.25 billion for UN peacekeeping (28.5 percent of the total peacekeeping budget).

Haley said she's scrutinizing those budgets, starting with peacekeeping - a target-rich environment with quite a few defunct, redundant or bloated blue-helmet missions around the world.

Other UN cuts were detailed in President Trump's recently announced budget.

The trend is clear: America will significantly reduce its UN contributions and stop handing over blank checks to agencies controlled by US antagonists.

No wonder they're freaking out at Turtle Bay. Last week, Guterres indicated in a statement that such US budget cuts would harm global efforts to combat terrorism and would undercut his attempts to reform the world body.

As evident by his scrapping of an anti-Israel report under Haley's pressure, the opposite is true.

They're shaking on the 38th floor. Good.

More than other bloated bureaucracies, the UN system has known only growth - in budgets, personnel and waste. Time to lose weight, and America alone is in a position to set the terms of the diet."