Waltz Says UN Needs ‘Tough Love’ and Reforms to Get More US Cash

Mike Waltz during a United Nations Security Council meeting in December, 2025.

Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg

The Trump administration will pay more of the dues it owes to the United Nations as long as the world body keeps enacting reforms demanded by Washington, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said.

“There’ll be more coming,” Waltz said in an interview on Wednesday. “But there’ll be more reforms with it.”