One of US President Donald Trump’s top allies has stunned the world, making a very bold claim during a shocking speech
The US ambassador to the United Nations says she wants Elon Musk’s purge of government and military officials to go global.
Republican House of Congress Representative Elise Stefanik, who represents New York, is US President Donald Trump’s designated (though not yet approved) ambassador to the United Nations.
Addressing Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters, she touted the mass firing of US government officials under Mr Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a template for UN reform.
“We need a Global DOGE!” Stefanik exclaimed yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in suburban Washington DC.
“We must expose the reckless and antisemitic, anti-American spending at the United Nations — and we will.”
The United States was the driving force behind the establishment of the United Nations after World War II. It oversaw the creation of a global forum to establish and enforce international standards as the best way to prevent the return of expansionist and fascist powers like those led by Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito and Adolf Hitler.
However, President Trump has repeatedly expressed irritation that the international consensus it represents does not always align with his personal views.
Mr Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organisation in the first month of his second term. And he has threatened to pull out of many others – including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – since ordering a 180-day review of US involvement in all international institutions.
But international affairs analysts have expressed bemusement at what the Trump White House hopes to achieve by abandoning the mechanisms it strove so hard to establish.
