Unpaid dues and reduced funding could halt the world body’s core operations by mid-2026, Antonio Guterres has warned.
The United Nations is at risk of running out of cash as unpaid dues and funding shortfalls by member states threaten to disrupt key operations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned.
Guterres issued the warning in a letter to all 193 member states this week, as cited by multiple media outlets. He urged either honoring the mandatory payments or overhauling the organization’s financial rules to avoid an “imminent financial collapse.” The secretary-general said the UN faced a financial crisis that was “deepening, threatening program delivery,” with cash potentially running out by July.
The letter described a “double blow” created by a rule that forces the UN to return unspent funds on particular programs to member states, even when contributions were never paid, trapping the organization in what Guterres called a “Kafkaesque cycle.”
Outstanding dues reached a record $1.568 billion at the end of 2025, with collections covering only 76.7% of assessed contributions, leaving the organization dangerously exposed. Unless collections “drastically improve,” the UN will not be able to fully implement its 2026 budget, Guterres said.
The warnings come as US, the world body’s largest contributor, cut voluntary funding to multiple UN programs and slashed aid spending in 2025. President Donald Trump said the move was intended to “end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over US priorities.” Last week, the US officially withdrew from the UN’s World Health Organization.
In late December, the US pledged $2 billion for UN humanitarian programs, warning the international organization must “adapt or die.” UN statistics show that total US humanitarian contributions fell to $3.38 billion last year, about 14.8% of the global sum, down sharply from $14.1 billion in 2024 and a peak of $17.2 billion in 2022. Other leading Western donors, including Germany and the UK, also reduced assistance as they shifted resources to military spending, creating a severe funding crunch.
Trump has also been accused of seeking to replace some UN functions with his own Board of Peace to oversee Gaza rebuilding.
Hope its true the WORLD is way better off without this bunch of unelected commies.
Too right.
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Hope the whole lot go down UN, WEF, NATO, WHO. In each Country the government may actually make decisions oriented towards the people’s choice as opposed to the unelected overlords lurking in the above orgs and beyond.
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Yep, has to happen…OMG, Luxon and his band of useless workers will have to use their own minds to figure out what to do next… maybe why Ms Wong quit recently… she wouldn’t know what to do at all other than write legislation that destroys this country like the Gene Tech bill…
Let’s hope the UN is subject to the same sort of rules and laws as most regular business around the world ….if you can’t pay your bills you fold.
Your customers not paying you for services (what services) is not an excuse.
At some point they have to close their doors
Die Parasite,die. All you were united around was a NWO one world government dystopia.
Yes!!! Yes!!!
I’ll sleep well tonight. This is good news.
Let it collapse. We don’t want their communism.
UN is full of useless old has been politicians and parasites living on other people’s money, pushing ideologies nobody wants. It watched while NATO bombed Serbia, when Gadaffi was murdered. It did nothing about human rights during Covid. It has done nothing about Gaza. The sooner it disappears with all its tentacles the WHO, the WEF, useless UNESCO, its blue helmets, its continual welfare programmes to corrupt nations and all the rest of its meetings, edicts, and rhetorical nonsense the better.
I’ll believe its collapsed when i hear its been disbanded. Then wait for it to be resurrected as something else with the same people. I’m sure we’ll need the body as we yet again get some rhetoric of emergency & other such alarmist wording like everything else these days..The only country that can do anything is the USA. All the worlds forces combined don’t match what the USA has in military capability. This military doctrine was established by the British when it was the largest military might to have more capability than its foes combined which the USA adopted..
Such a heartwarming story…..let hope it collapses soon.