Victoria Spartz: “I think my colleague is not representing the amendment very correctly. This amendment does not defund the full U.N.…”

“I think my colleague is not representing the amendment very correctly. This amendment does not defund the full U.N., which we probably should, considering what happened. It just defunds programs that we did not explicitly authorize. Congress should be doing its job. Let's talk about UNICEF. UNICEF does not want to admit its shortcomings in its humanitarian support to children who allege that they were raped and sexually abused by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. This is the same U.N. agency that U.N. employees were alleged to have participated in the Hamas attack and where just recently one U.S. agency's staff whistleblower alleged large sums are being lost to corruption in Iraq as donors fail to track spending on $1.5 billion in aid projects. Roughly a half billion was funded by taxpayers of the United States. The employees actually said it is not just this culture of bribery fueled by the U.N. It is also this culture of funds being spent on the U.N.'s large overhead and not really even getting to the people. I have been on the ground a lot. I will be honest with you, our allies around the world are laughing that we are giving money to corrupt organizations controlled by Russia and China and may work most of the time against American interests. It doesn't really help the people. I have been in war zones, including Ukraine, the Middle East, and Africa. You haven't seen them.…”