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Waltz Testifies at the House Foreign Affairs Hearing on UN Accountability and Reform, Jul. 22, 2026

July 22, 2026 · Forbes Breaking News · 3:23:16

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What happened

Ambassador Mike Waltz testified on July 22, 2026, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee at its hearing “United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First Foreign Policy Through Strategic Diplomacy and Burden Sharing,” according to Forbes Breaking News, which carried the hearing in full. He testified alongside Jeff Bartos, the U.S. Representative for U.N. Management and Reform, according to CBS News’s account of the hearing. The hearing was held amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, and Waltz’s testimony presented his U.N. accountability and reform program — and the burden-sharing case behind it — to the House committee that oversees U.S. foreign policy.

Why it matters

This hearing is the House-side counterpart to Waltz’s April Senate testimony: the same reform doctrine — accountability for U.S. funds, burden sharing by other member states, and an America First framing of U.S. diplomacy at the U.N. — placed before the second chamber, during an active conflict in which the Security Council is a central arena.

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This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the U.N. accountability, reform and burden-sharing positions Ambassador Waltz stated at the July 22, 2026 House Foreign Affairs hearing, to be checked against subsequent U.S. Mission actions and U.N. reform outcomes.

Sources: House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, “United Nations Accountability and Reform: Advancing an America First Foreign Policy Through Strategic Diplomacy and Burden Sharing,” July 22, 2026 (full hearing as carried by Forbes Breaking News, embedded above); CBS News account of the hearing. All characterizations as stated by Ambassador Waltz and committee members at the hearing.