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The United States has paid astir $160 cardinal of the astir $4 cardinal it owes the United Nations, the U.N. said Thursday (February 19, 2026), and President Donald Trump promised much wealth to the financially strapped satellite organization.
The Trump administration's outgo past week is earmarked for the U.N.'s regular operating budget, U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told The Associated Press.
The U.N. has said the United States owes $2.19 cardinal to its regular budget, including $767 cardinal for this year, arsenic good arsenic $1.8 cardinal to a abstracted fund for the far-flung U.N. peacekeeping operations.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned precocious past period that the satellite assemblage faces “imminent fiscal collapse” unless its fiscal rules are overhauled oregon each 193 subordinate nations wage their dues, a connection intelligibly directed astatine the United States.
He said successful a missive to each subordinate nations that currency for the regular fund could tally retired by July, which could dramatically impact U.N. operations. U.N. officials person said 95% of the overdue payments to the U.N.'s regular fund is from the United States.
The disclosure of the U.S. outgo came arsenic Mr. Trump convened the archetypal gathering of the Board of Peace, a caller inaugural initially meant to oversee the Gaza ceasefire but whose wider ambitions nether Mr. Trump galore spot arsenic an effort to rival the U.N. Security Council's relation successful preventing and ending struggle astir the world.
Mr. Trump has said the United Nations has not lived up to its imaginable and has withdrawn the U.S. from U.N. organizations, including the World Health Organization and the taste bureau UNESCO, portion pulling backing from dozens of others.
At the Board of Peace gathering Thursday (February 19) successful Washington, Mr. Trump was overmuch much affirmative than helium has been successful the past astir the aboriginal of the United Nations, which was established connected the ashes of World War II.
He said his medication was going to beryllium moving “very closely” with the U.N., adding, “Someday, I won't beryllium present — the United Nations volition be.” Mr. Trump said the Board of Peace “is going to astir beryllium looking implicit the United Nations,” strengthening it and making definite its facilities are bully and it runs properly.
“They request help, and they request assistance moneywise,” the President said, ne'er mentioning that the U.S. nonaccomplishment to wage its dues is simply a cardinal crushed for the U.N.'s fiscal crisis.
“We're going to assistance them moneywise, and we're going to marque definite the United Nations is viable,” Mr. Trump said. “And I deliberation it's going to yet unrecorded up to its potential. That volition beryllium a large day.” He did not accidental erstwhile immoderate aboriginal payments would beryllium made.
Mr. Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said past week that Mr. Guterres has been successful interaction with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz “for rather immoderate time” and that the U.N.'s controller besides has been successful interaction with U.S. officials astir the arrears. The U.N. said 55 countries paid their yearly dues for 2026 by the February 8 owed date.
