The United States has pledged to contribute $1.8 billion toward the United Nations’ humanitarian aid pooled funds, the U.S. State Department said on May 14.
This will add to the $2 billion announced in December 2025, bringing total U.S. support for humanitarian funds administered by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to $3.8 billion.
Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said at a press conference that the latest funding would help to “save more lives around the world” and support efforts to “drive forward the reforms” of the institution.
“This isn’t the end to our efforts; in fact, it’s just the latest step. We still have a lot of work to do, again, to be completely candid to address the bloat that often undermines the United Nations’ mission,” he said….