Staff Reports
Mike Waltz’s confirmation by the U.S. Senate on September 19, 2025 finally put a strong, America-first voice back in the U.S. seat at the United Nations after months of a hollow vacancy. The vote closed a chapter of delay that left American influence diluted at the world body just as the General Assembly convened, and Waltz stepped into the role promising to restore the UN’s original purpose: peace and stability, not political posturing.
Long before his elevation to the UN post, Waltz didn’t mince words about President Trump’s foreign policy record, calling him “the president of peace” as the administration pursued direct diplomacy to end prolonged wars and reassert American leadership on terms that benefit our people. That characterization is not spin; it reflects a conservative belief that strength, leverage, and clear national interest lead to real peace — not endless war financed by taxpayers and skinny promises from global bureaucrats.
In his recent public comments since confirmation, Waltz has been blunt about what American tax dollars should — and should not — be supporting at the UN: concrete peacemaking and humanitarian work that protects allies, not woke bureaucratic theater that spends our money on virtue-signaling. Conservatives should cheer a diplomat who insists that every penny sent overseas draw a straight line back to an identifiable American national interest, and who rejects the idea that taxpayer funds exist to prop up moralizing fads from New York salons.
Waltz has also targeted the rot inside specific U.N. programs, arguing that agencies like UNRWA must be held accountable when evidence shows personnel were complicit in terror or indoctrination rather than relief. That tough, unapologetic stance on accountability is exactly what the UN needs after decades of mission creep and ballooning budgets with diminishing returns for peace; it’s time money follows results, not reflexive handouts.
Yes, the left-leaning press will harp on every stumble — and Signalgate was dragged through the headlines — but conservatives should refuse the reflex to purge proven patriots over bureaucratic mistakes that opponents gleefully exploit. What matters is whether an ambassador stands firm for American interests at the negotiating table and uses the bully pulpit of the UN to defend our allies and push for viable peace, and on that score Waltz has shown he will not be a paper tiger.
Congress now has a clear choice: rubber-stamp business as usual at the UN or finally attach meaningful conditions to funding so that Americans are not subsidizing global theater while our own cities and veterans go wanting. If lawmakers heed Waltz and demand accountability, transparency, and a return to peacemaking, they will be doing the hard, necessary work of putting America first on the world stage — and that’s a fight worth having.
Americans who love this country should rally behind diplomats who back a clear, strong policy: secure peace through strength, cut the wasteful woke pageantry, and make sure our tax dollars end up defending liberty and saving lives where it matters. Mike Waltz’s arrival at the UN is a chance to reclaim American leadership, and patriots should press him, Congress, and the president to see the job through with the courage to demand real reform.
