United State Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Nimrata (Nikki) Haley'The soul' versus 'law and order' Author Ryan Girdusky: RNC worked best when highlighting 'regular people' as opposed to 'standard Republicans' GOP lobbyists pleasantly surprised by Republican convention MORE on Wednesday doubled down on President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE's threat to pull foreign aid from countries who vote in favor of a U.N. resolution condemning his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

"Referencing tomorrow's UN vote criticizing the US embassy move," Haley wrote on Twitter alongside a photo of her and Trump at the U.N. "In the words of the President, 'Let them vote against us, we'll save a lot.' "

Referencing tomorrow's UN vote criticizing the US embassy move. In the words of the President, "Let them vote against us, we'll save a lot." pic.twitter.com/eUGWD4cCBR — Nikki Haley (@nikkihaley) December 20, 2017

The U.N. General Assembly is set to hold an emergency special session on Thursday, during which the international body is expected to vote on a resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

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The resolution has drawn the ire of Haley and Trump, who have both warned U.N. member states that the U.S. will be taking stock of who votes in favor of the resolution.

Trump suggested during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the U.S. could cut off foreign aid to countries that oppose Washington in the General Assembly vote.

“All these nations that take our money and then vote against us at the Security Council or the assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars and they vote against us,” he said. “Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us, we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”

The General Assembly vote on the resolution comes after a similar resolution on the U.N. Security Council failed due to a U.S. veto. The panel's 14 other members voted to approve the resolution.

After the Security Council vote, Haley cast the veto as a defense of U.S. sovereignty and called the council's wide support for the resolution an "insult."

The U.S. does not hold veto power in the General Assembly, meaning there's no formal way for the country to block the resolution. The measure is not legally binding, but would send be a symbolic condemnation of the Jerusalem move and could exert political pressure on the U.S.

Trump's announcement earlier this month that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and begin the process of moving the U.S. embassy to the city reversed nearly seven decades of U.S. policy in the region. It also threatened to derail future peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, which Trump has vowed to broker.