Whelp. The United Nations is running dangerously low on cash… According to a new report, the UN could be completely out of money within the next few months. Take a look: REPORT: The United Nations on the verge of running out of money in the next couple months. pic.twitter.com/KMF1MACVK3 — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) May 3, 2025 BREAKING: United Nations is reportedly running low on funds and may run out of money in the coming months. — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) May 3, 2025 Wait, what’s the problem? pic.twitter.com/whWsa9P0of — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 2, 2025 This is largely due to President Trump putting an end to the billions of dollars in funding that the United States gives the UN. And, why should we continue paying them? Update: UN is bankrupt and planning radical overhaul amid budget crisis – merging key agencies, cutting bureaucracy, and relocating staff to save costs!! With $2.7 billion dollars in ‘unpaid’ US dues and 6,000+ jobs at risk!! pic.twitter.com/fRVv0lKYMg — US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) May 3, 2025 BREAKING: The United Nations will run out of money in just months after Donald Trump cuts funding Globalism has been defeated. pic.twitter.com/nqWOFs0uZD — Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) May 3, 2025 The Economist reported: The United Nations headquarters towers majestically over Manhattan’s East River. Yet its escalators are often out of order, casualties of sweeping cost cuts by the secretary-general, António Guterres. He must hope that by forcing country representatives to climb up on foot he will save on maintenance and perhaps remind their governments to pay their bills. On May 5th the UN will brief members on a previously unreported $600m (17%) cut to its $3.7bn budget aimed at avoiding default this year. It will include a hiring freeze while officials consider further savings that a Western diplomat describes as “moving jobs from New York to Nairobi”. Yet it may not be enough. A combination of deadbeat members and mad budget rules have led to a liquidity crisis. Now, a leaked White House memo proposing that America stop paying its mandatory contributions threatens a financial crash in the citadel of peace and security. Last year the UN had a $200m cash shortfall, despite spending only 90% of its planned budget. This year will be much worse. Internal modelling suggests that the year-end cash deficit will, without cuts, probably blow out to $1.1bn, leaving the UN without money to pay salaries and suppliers by September. Most UN funding, such as for bodies providing humanitarian food or shelter, is voluntary, but the core functions are paid for through mandatory dues, linked to the size of members’ economies. These core functions include General Assembly meetings, peacekeeping and human-rights monitoring. In a letter seen by The Economist that Mr Guterres sent to members in February, he warned that the peacekeeping budget to pay for troops may run dry by mid-year. The “root problem”, according to the UN boss, is that some members are paying their bills late and others not at all. The UN collects mandatory dues in the year that it intends to spend them. For that reason, members are meant to send their fees in January so that the UN can pay its staff and suppliers. But countries are paying their required fees later and later. In 2024 about 15% of the UN’s budget funds arrived in December. Then there are the free-riders. Members failed to pay $760m in mandatory contributions. The unpaid millions were owed by 41 countries, including America, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela. Some may have paid after the year ended. The United States provides around 22% of the total UN budget, yet the UN only returns a whole lot of nothing. This X user makes an excellent point: If the UN were worth funding, there would be no war in Ukraine; the issues would have been worked out during calm discussion. The whole point of its founding and funding was to prevent disputes from rising to armed combat. It has failed miserably in its mission. — Objective interlocutor (@Objectivei32678) May 2, 2025 If other countries want to keep the UN funded, they should do it themselves. And if not, then good riddance!