NEW YORK — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that he, at the direction of President Donald Trump, is pushing to “Make the UN Great Again.”

Waltz, in a lengthy exclusive on-camera interview on the floor of the General Assembly of the UN taped on Oct. 23, took Breitbart News inside the nitty gritty of how Trump and his team are accomplishing this feat—using the strength of American taxpayer dollars to force reforms that have now been embraced at least to an extent by the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres. After the interview, Waltz took Breitbart News for a walk through the UN headquarters in Manhattan down the famous “Hall of Flags” where he handed Breitbart News a “MUNGA”—or “Make the UN Great Again”—hat. The hat, which is white and blue—UN colors—closely resembles the president’s red “MAGA,” or “Make America Great Again,” hats.

Waltz told Breitbart News that the UN has grown far too “bloated” with woke insanity since its founding—much like other bureaucracies such as USAID, which Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio gutted earlier this year.

“So just like we saw with USAID, this progressive ideology has infected so many aid organizations and then here at the UN—which has been around again since the end of World War II, set up in the wake of it in the 1940s—it’s now proliferated and bloated and grown like so many other bureaucracies would and do over 80 years,” Waltz said. “There are seven agencies that say their number one objective is dealing with climate. Seven. Regardless of how you feel about it, what you want to debate on it, let’s get that down to one at best and cut out the other six. What they call the Secretariat, which is kind of like the executive branch, has grown to tens of thousands of employees living here in one of the most expensive cities in the world. We’re going to cut that back.”

Waltz explained to Breitbart News how President Trump and his team are using the leverage of Americans’ tax dollars to force reforms to the UN—and that the Secretary General has agreed to cut his own budget by 15 percent. It’s the first time this century that the United States has implemented the use of such leverage, the last time being way back in the late 1990s when former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) did it as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“Look, we are withholding American funding,” Waltz said. “The President is withholding American funding until we see the reforms. We haven’t done that since Jesse Helms did it in 1999—it’s been 25 years. President Trump has done it, and in just the month that I’ve been here, we have a 15 percent cut to the overall UN budget. We have an 18 percent cut to their overall personnel.