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U.S. Cuts U.N. Humanitarian Support to $2 Billion, Ties It to Central Fund and Reforms

The pledge conditions U.S. support on an OCHA-run central pool that consolidates U.N. relief operations.

FILE - People carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
A general view of a U.S. State Department sign outside the U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo
FILE - A woman and her children, survivors of Sunday night's 6.0-magnitude earthquake, wait for assistance in the village of Wadir, Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi, File)
FILE - Women displaced from El-Fasher stand in line to receive food aid at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Overview

  • The commitment marks a steep pullback from prior U.S. humanitarian contributions that reached up to about $17 billion a year, according to U.N. data.
  • A preliminary agreement channels the money into an OCHA-managed umbrella fund that will allocate resources across agencies and crises.
  • Washington conditioned the deal on consolidating U.N. humanitarian functions to reduce duplication, with the State Department warning agencies must “adapt, shrink, or die.”
  • The initial pool targets 17 countries — including Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Syria and Ukraine — while excluding Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.
  • U.N. officials report severe funding shortfalls as other major donors also retrench, and a trimmed 2026 appeal seeks roughly $23 billion to address global needs.