The United States pledged $2 billion in United Nations humanitarian assistance Monday, as part of a deal aimed at streamlining the way international aid is distributed. In Geneva, the U.S. State Department and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) signed a memorandum of understanding, creating a new umbrella fund from which OCHA can funnel U.S. and other aid to individual U.N. agencies, rather than U.S. contributions going to scattered appeals for aid.

As global humanitarian crises escalate and Washington reexamines how foreign aid dollars are spent, the United States announced Monday it will pledge $2 billion to United Nations relief programs, pairing continued support with strict demands for reform. According to The Associated Press, the pledge comes as President Donald Trump's administration continues sweeping reductions in U.S. foreign assistance and issues a blunt warning to U.N. agencies facing a new financial reality: "adapt, shrink or die."

The United States on Monday pledged $2 billion in assistance to tens of millions of people facing hunger and disease in more than a dozen countries next year, part of what it said was a new mechanism for the delivery of life-saving assistance following major foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration. The U.S. slashed its aid spending this year, and leading Western donors such as Germany also pared back assistance as they pivoted to increased defense spending, triggering a severe funding crunch for the United Nations.