UN prepping for spending cuts as DOGE roots out waste in US, internal docs show

An interior United Nations memo obtained by Fox News Digital shows that the enactment is trying to brace itself for U.S. backing cuts arsenic the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) works to basal retired waste.

The memo was sent to heads of assorted departments and offices with the taxable enactment "Managing the 2025 regular fund liquidity crisis." According to the memo, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres issued a directive to negociate cashflow "conservatively" and to suspend hiring. It besides contained a informing to the section heads, telling them to hole to enactment with 80% of their allocated budgets. 

"We are alert that the 80% ceiling could airs important challenges for galore entities to conscionable immoderate of their non-discretionary spending for non-post costs. However, we are constrained by the deficiency of wide liquidity," the memo reads.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a Security Council gathering during the 79th United Nations General Assembly astatine U.N. office successful New York City connected Sept. 27, 2024. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

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Secretary-General Guterres’ spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed to Fox News Digital that this memo was sent retired and said that it was "not unusual."

Despite the U.N. memo stating that cutting backmost to 80% of allocated funds would perchance harm entities, insiders archer erstwhile Principal Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Hugh Dugan that they bash not spot immoderate "real cuts" successful it. Insiders were allegedly amazed by the unit freeze, though they uncertainty determination volition beryllium immoderate factual intermission to hiring.

In summation to the memo, Secretary-General Guterres sent an invitation to each secretariat unit to enactment successful a virtual municipality hallway aboriginal this month. The invitation did not authorities an authoritative taxable for the municipality hall, but Dujarric confirmed to Fox News Digital that "the secretary-general volition code the fiscal concern of the U.N."

The United Nations Headquarters is photographed successful New York City. (iStock)

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Dugan told Fox News Digital that the municipality hallway invitation’s deficiency of a taxable and the event’s precocious day amusement that "the urgency is not contiguous capable astatine all." 

While the U.N. has been capable to get by connected its presumption that it could find ways to bail itself out, it whitethorn person exhausted those methods, according to Dugan. Additionally, Dugan said the U.N.’s presumption that it tin usage its powerfulness connected the satellite signifier arsenic leverage successful negotiations with the U.S. has proven to beryllium "preposterous" successful caller years.

The U.N. whitethorn precise good person a crushed to interest aft President Donald Trump’s code to a associated league of Congress successful which helium listed galore examples of "appalling waste" identified by DOGE. However, the anticipation of different countries that supply large backing to the planetary assemblage reassessing their spending arsenic good could beryllium causing further concern.

However, Dujarric denied the memo was a "direct effect of the governmental concern successful the U.S." and that the U.N. has "faced a liquidity crisis" for decades, arsenic "not each subordinate states wage successful full" oregon "on time."

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a property league successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti, connected July 1, 2023. (RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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The memo comes conscionable astir a period aft Secretary-General Guterres sent a missive to unit reassuring them that the U.N. was moving to mitigate the interaction of imaginable fund cuts. He besides doubled down connected the value of the planetary assemblage and seemed to see a connection to boost morale.

"Now, much than ever, the enactment of the United Nations is crucial. As we look this hard challenge, your dedication and enactment volition assistance america to flooded and determination forward," Guterres’ February missive read.