Nikki Haley taking names of countries who don't 'have our back'

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said she's "taking names" of countries that don't have "our back" and those that do. A newly released annual State Department report on voting records at the UN will tell the story of just who's with us and those who aren't.

The report found that member states only voted with us 31 percent of the time last year on UNGA resolutions. That's down 10 percent from 2016 because Obama was president and perhaps the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with its 57 member states, may have thought he was a Muslim and liked him more than Trump.

When Haley saw the newest report she said in a statement that it was not an "acceptable return" on the United States' investment and suggested this could factor into aid decisions.

I think it should factor into whether the UN remains in Manhattan, New York. At the very least, it's definitely time for other nations to kick in their "fair share" of funding. The U.S. taxpayer pays 22 percent of the U.N. budget. 

That's more money than the next three highest donors combined!

Haley said the U.S. cares more about "being right than popular and are once again standing up for our interests and values."

Then she added: "Either way, this is not an acceptable return on our investment. When we arrived at the UN last year, we said we would be taking names, and this list of voting records speaks for itself. President Trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars--the most generous in the world--always serve American interests, and we look forward to helping him see that the American people are no longer taken for granted."

The times they are a' changing.




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