Haley downplays Trump’s threat to defund UN

Published January 18, 2017 6:53pm ET



President-elect Trump’s designated ambassador to the United Nations opposes any “slash and burn” of U.S. funding for the U.N., and assured Congress that Trump’s national security team would “educate” the incoming president about foreign policy issues.

“I know that [Trump] had made comments about the U.N., but those are not my feelings and I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen,” Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., said during her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing.

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