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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz testified today before the House Appropriations Committee. His testimony comes after a new report from the Select Committee on the CCP showing Beijing's growing influence at the UN. NTD's Chris Baugh has the story. You get asked, I'm sure, by our constituents, why are we participating in the UN? What is it doing for us? If we don't engage here, it will be invented somewhere else. And we have seen the Chinese very aggressively leverage their funding with demands in terms of position. At a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Friday, U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz testifying before lawmakers on how China is leveraging its U.N. status to boost its influence and how U.S. tax dollars are being spent. There wasn't even a clear cataloging. What we found was a lot of duplication across the board. And then frankly, organizations, I think you'd struggle in a town hall back home to explain like the Pan American Postal Union or the Tropical Timber Forest Association that we're contributing to. It was very difficult to articulate to what gain. Waltz also noting the irony of China's participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council and its failure to call out atrocities. When we look at organizations like the Human Rights Council and when you see the Iranian regime literally wholesale at industrial scale massacring its own people and they're completely silent, it's difficult to describe the level of bias. Waltz commented that many U.N. agencies overlap in function, leading to duplication and unclear results for U.S. taxpayers. He emphasized the U.S. remains the largest contributor, paying more than 180 countries combined. One agency that focuses on refugees. There's another agency that focuses on migrants. And then there's another agency, the World Food Program, that focuses on food. Or should some of these agencies just be combined? Do they need separate headquarters, separate staff, separate boards? And I think there's a real argument that they should be. But just like reforming our own federal government, it's a bit of a grind. Earlier this week, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party released a report highlighting Beijing's growing influence at the United Nations. The chairman of that committee saying, The report outlined several ways the CCP has tried to expand its influence across the U.N. system through financial contributions and placing PRC officials at key roles in the U.N. Where I think we could do more is at the junior level, even at the intern level, where we've seen the PRC push their nationals at scale. The House report details Beijing's systematic use of funding, personnel, peacekeeping deployments, and state-linked NGOs to reshape the U.N. Troop deployment in Africa, surging contributions, and Chinese nationals in senior roles all point to a coordinated strategy to protect China's strategic and economic interests while all influencing U.N. outcomes. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Chris Bobb, NTD News.