Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General\u00a0for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator<\/p>\n
I want to express my thanks to the United States for this extraordinary $2 billion commitment to our humanitarian action around the world. This bold and ambitious act of leadership from President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Under Secretary of State Jeremy Lewin will save many millions of lives.<\/p>\n
Alongside generosity, reform is at the heart of the work ahead between the US, OCHA and the humanitarian system. US taxpayers deserve to know how their support is used, and we will show how every dollar delivers real lifesaving impact. By supporting country funds, the US is also placing a significant and encouraging vote of trust and confidence in the Humanitarian Reset, through which we are making humanitarian action faster, smarter and closer to the people on the front lines of emergencies. We\u2019re cutting red tape, eliminating duplication and prioritizing hard as we set out to save 87 million lives in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The US has long been the world\u2019s humanitarian superpower. Hundreds of millions of people are alive today because of American generosity \u2013 and many millions more will survive in 2026 because of this landmark investment in humanity.<\/p>\n
Geneva, 29 December 2025<\/p>\n
Media contacts:\u00a0<\/p>\n
In New York:\u00a0Eri Kaneko, kaneko@un.org<\/a>, +1 917 208 8910\u00a0 OCHA press releases are available at\u00a0www.unocha.org<\/a> or\u00a0www.reliefweb.int<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General\u00a0for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator I want to express my thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-376135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In Geneva:\u00a0Jens Laerke,\u00a0laerke@un.org<\/a>, +41 79 472 9750<\/p>\n