President Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut aid to countries that oppose the U.S. at the United Nations, on the eve of a vote on a resolution criticizing his Israel policy.
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us,” Trump said Wednesday before a Cabinet meeting. “Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us, we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”
That was a reiteration of a threat U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made Tuesday, in anticipation of an emergency session for the UN General Assembly to condemn Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It also follows Haley’s veto of a related UN Security Council draft resolution that she dubbed “an insult” to the U.S.
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Trump threatens to chop aid to countries that vote against him at the UN https://t.co/DOqhUPI4WO pic.twitter.com/UdSIJIKy8q
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 21, 2017
This country should be chopping foreign aid, period. Why are we propping up so many countries, many of which hate us?
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