U.S. Funding for United Nations

The Trump administration announced a reduced U.S. pledge of $2 billion for U.N. humanitarian aid, delivered as an "initial anchor" and channeled into a new centralized pooled fund run by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs under Tom Fletcher, replacing prior project‑by‑project grants. Administration officials framed the move as a "humanitarian reset" to force U.N. agencies to "adapt, shrink or die" and boost efficiency, while critics note cuts from prior U.S. levels (which have topped $17 billion annually) and earlier pauses have already forced program and job reductions at agencies like UNHCR, WFP and IOM and risk worsening hunger, displacement and U.S. soft power.