Less is more? The U.S. at the UN
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took office on January 27, 2017, a week into the new administration, as the third cabinet member to be confirmed (after Defense Secretary Mattis and CIA Director Pompeo). Her membership in the cabinet and on the principals committee of the National Security Council (NSC) is unusual for recent Republican administrations, as the tradition – established by President Eisenhower and continued by Presidents Ford, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama – was discontinued in the two Bush administrations. With this apparent momentum, Ambassador Haley announced immediately that the administration would “look at the UN, and everything that’s working, we’re going to make it better; everything that’s not working, we’re going to try and fix; and anything that seems to be obsolete and not necessary, we’re going to do away with.”