Good News: With the USA cutting funding, the UN has to downsize its operations and cut 20% of its 35,000-strong workforce
Devex’s Newswire reported today that with the Trump administration dead set on yanking most US funding to the United Nations, the world body is being forced to adapt to a constrained new fiscal reality – and the workforce is about to feel the squeeze.
In today’s global development newsletter presented by the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”), Devex’s Newswire highlighted the UN’s high cost of reform. Its newsletter states the following.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres recentlylaunched a new reform initiative, dubbed UN80. According to an internal memo, sent by the UN comptroller, it’s “an ambitious effort to ensure that the United Nations is fit for purpose to support twenty-first century multilateralism, reduce human suffering and build better lives and futures for all.”
That’s all well and good, but being “fit for purpose” actually translates into some serious downsizing for the UN in the face of potentially steep US cuts.
Specifically, Guterres is seeking to eliminate 20% of jobs across the UN Secretariat, which employs some 35,000 people, and to make a 20% reduction to the UN’s regular budget, which covers essential programmes and administration costs, and is currently set at just under $3.7 billion for 2026.
The internal memo instructed that by 13 June, dozens of senior UN officials need to report on how they can achieve the proposed cuts in their departments. It acknowledged the “aggressive timelines” of this “collective effort.”
But critics say that downsizing is being done too hastily.
The current quest for savings is just “about cuts,” Martin Griffiths, the former UN emergency relief coordinator, told Devex last week. “That’s not about reform. I think that’s wrong.”
“The letter asks for massive structural changes, with far-reaching consequences, to be decided within two weeks,” Ian Richards, head of the UN staff union in Geneva, tells my colleague Colum Lynch. “While providing some guidance, managers still have no idea how to implement this.”
“It’s not clear whether the SG [secretary-general] has really thought things through,” he adds.
[Now it’s up to the remaining countries to defund the UN and so collapse the world government control structure the Globalists have been building since WWII.]
