‘We will dismantle it’: Major Trump ally stuns with wild ‘global DOGE’ call
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Mr Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organisation in the first month of his second term.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.
“Simply put, withdrawing from the IMF and the World Bank would be a grave mistake, stripping the US of its ability to shape the rules of the international monetary order and pursue its strategic interests,” argues University of Oxford dean of government Ngaire Woods.
“Yet at least some in the Trump administration appear tempted.”
Disuniting nations
“US President Theodore Roosevelt famously said foreign policy should ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’,” writes Woods.
“The Trump administration believes in speaking loudly and letting Musk use his big stick to smash things.”
Controversial billionaire Elon Musk, President Trump’s most significant financial backer during the 2024 election campaign, has been made a “special government employee” to lead the DOGE purge of government institutions and employees.
Ambassador-to-be Stefanik, however, insists severing ties with the United Nations will help establish a new US-centric world order.
“I will work with President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team to ensure every single dollar that we send to the United Nations is in line with the institution’s founding mission of promoting international peace and security,” Ms Stefanik told the cheering MAGA crowd.
“We will not fund terrorism, we will not fund corruption, we will not fund antisemitism, and we will not fund anti-Americanism.”
During his election campaign, Mr Trump attempted to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 agenda set out by ultraconservative US think-tank The Heritage Foundation.
“(This) directive aligns with the goals of Project 2025, which dismisses the IMF and World Bank as ‘expensive middlemen’ that ‘intercept’ US funding before they reach projects abroad,” Woods points out.
“If Trump follows this playbook, a US exit would be imminent.”
But the rationale behind such extreme action remains elusive.
“Project 2025’s authors have clearly misunderstood how these institutions are funded and run,” Woods explains.
“By abandoning the IMF and the World Bank, the US would lose a key source of global influence and economic leverage. In effect, the US would forfeit vital tools for supporting its partners — and withholding financing from its foes.”
The IMF and World Bank – both based in New York – have historically mostly supported US international interests. And both have intervened to help cushion the impact of global events on the US economy.
“The US has consistently maintained tight control over these institutions, shaping their policies and leadership to advance its national interests,” Woods adds.
But such UN international consensus forums are not entirely beholden to Washington DC.
“Other countries may be shocked, but they are not helpless,” the Oxford dean concludes.
“By staying focused, working together, and acting decisively, they can still salvage the multilateral system.”
Agent of chaos
“We left the WHO, which covered up the truth about Covid,” Ms Stefanik stated at CPAC. “President Trump terminated the America Last Paris Climate Agreement. President Trump withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council, which is a corrupt farce run by the worst abusers on the planet.
“The Trump Administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court – an illegitimate court fuelled by raging antisemitism and anti-Americanism.
“And a top priority that I have worked on for years, we defunded UNRWA [the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East] – the pro-Hamas terrorist front group that committed atrocities on October 7.
“Make no mistake, as President Trump’s United States Ambassador to the United Nations, we will not only defund UNRWA, we will dismantle it.”
This, she added, was just a start.
Mr Musk’s DOGE is a means to an end.
“This initiative is as common sense and America First as it gets — and yet Democrats have spiralled into an utter state of panic, calling President Trump and Elon Musk a threat to democracy,” Ms Stefanik told the MAGA crowd.
“When the truth is — DOGE is a threat to the swamp’s bureaucracy. DOGE is draining the SWAMP just like President Trump said he would.”
DOGE-in-chief Musk (though the White House has confusingly told a US court he is not in charge of the department he formed and organised) is facing mounting criticism over conflicts of interests.
And incompetence.
His personally-selected band of young inquisitors fired some 2000 Department of Energy workers earlier this month.
This “accidentally” included high-security specialists responsible for assembling nuclear warheads. (Efforts to re-hire these specialists have reportedly proven difficult).
Now, Mr Musk’s hatchet men are purging the department responsible for overseeing road safety. This includes about half of a team that happens to be investigating a spate of Tesla Autopilot accidents.
President Trump says he has no issues with how these terminations are being handled.
Instead, Mr Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday that he “WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE”.
“I think we have to just do what we have to do,” he later told media.
“It’s, you know, you’re going to — it’s amazing what’s been found right now. It’s amazing. In some cases, they’ll fire people then they’ll put some people back … not all of them because a lot of people were let go.
“Don’t forget I got elected on the basis of making the government stronger and smaller!”
Meanwhile, Ms Stefanik says the United Nations can expect the same treatment.
“President Trump is putting America FIRST by demanding fair and reciprocal trade, unleashing American energy independence, cutting regulations, and demanding our government work for We The People as President Trump DOGEs wasteful unAmerican spending …” she said.
“So get ready — we are still only one month in, and we must work together to Make America Great Again!”
Jamie Seidel is a freelance writer | @jamieseidel.bsky.social
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