The United States is giving the United Nations more than $1 billion for responding to humanitarian problems and disasters, officials announced on June 16.
The State Department said in a statement it is awarding more than $218 million to the U.N. Children’s Fund and more than $800 million to the U.N. World Food Programme.
The money will help the U.N. rapidly respond to humanitarian crises and disasters, according to the State Department.
Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. government has curtailed global spending. In late 2025, the Trump administration and the U.N. reached an agreement that provided $2 billion in humanitarian funding in exchange for reforms that U.S. officials said would reduce bureaucracy and “ideological creep,” including replacing unobservable grants with consolidated awards administered by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that would be accountable and aligned with U.S. interests….