President Donald Trump, just two weeks into his second term, has wasted no time in taking a blowtorch to the United States' traditional approach to foreign policy and diplomacy. Over the weekend, it was the DOGE-led effort to slow the roll of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that garnered all the headlines as the world came to grips with the fact that Trump is all out of bubblegum. 

RedState's Bob Hoge reported Saturday that, in the wake of an attempt by top USAID security officials to stop DOGE personnel from accessing USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration suspended those officials and floated the idea that USAID would cease to be an independent organization and instead be absorbed into the U.S. State Department. And, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that is exactly what will happen.

Trump's next foreign policy move, as reported by Politico, is sure to tick off all the right people, namely those whose pockets get deeper every time the largesse of the American taxpayer goes abroad. Not only does the president intend to withdraw the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council, he will also pull all future funding for UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), Hamas's biggest cheerleader and, by many accounts, collaborator. 

Let's first tackle the topic of UNRWA. Here's Politico's take:

UNRWA is the main agency providing aid for Gaza’s population amid the humanitarian disaster caused by Israel’s offensive in the area after the Oct. 7 attack. But the U.N. fired several staffers last summer after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the attack.

And here's how RedState's own Streiff summed up UNWRA's nefarious activities: 

UNRWA schools became hotbeds of jihadism and antisemitism, with Holocaust denial, Hitler worship, and the encouragement of violence against non-Muslims being a standard part of the curriculum.

The blatant collaboration between Hamas and UNRWA became obvious on October 7. 

Even though UNRWA resolutely denied all evidence of its complicity in the October 7 attacks and how its funding had been used to turn Gaza into a warren of terrorist tunnels (UNRWA Spokesman Gives Insane CNN Interview Amidst Hostage Scandal), there was a moment of high irony when Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed on October 17. Both of his bodyguards were UNRWA employees; see WILD: Incredible Footage Shows Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Up-Close and Personal Just Before His Death.

The ties between UNRWA and Hamas have come into even sharper focus as released Israeli hostages tell of being held by Hamas terrorists in UNRWA facilities in Gaza. One hostage released in recent weeks, Emily Damari, a British-Israeli citizen, told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that part of her time in captivity was spent in UNRWA facilities, where she was denied proper medical care despite losing two fingers and injuring her leg after her brutal kidnapping on October 7.

To his credit, former President Joe Biden halted funding to UNRWA, but this beast needs to be put down once and for all.

Then there's the matter of the U.N. Human Rights Council, an entity that Republican presidents George W. Bush and Trump refused to engage with, while Democrats Obama and Biden did. There was one big reason for Bush and Trump not to take the council seriously: the inclusion of China, the world's largest purveyor of human rights violations, as a member.

Per the Politico report:

The White House, in a fact sheet obtained by POLITICO, said the council “has not fulfilled its purpose and continues to be used as a protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations” and condemned its stance on Israel.

“The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings,” the document says. “In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.”

President Trump is expected to sign the executive order neutering the Human Rights Council and UNRWA sometime Monday afternoon; the president will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.