Trump immediately cuts U.S. funding for terror-supporting U.N. group hellbent on Israel’s destruction
JERUSALEM – U.S. President Donald Trump kept his campaign promises in the first hours of his second term, signing dozens of executive orders to undo the damage of the previous four years of the Biden presidency.
One of those involved – with immediate effect – the defunding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, as the Trump team has decided to suspend any foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews.
UNRWA, which is the only U.N. agency that has responsibility for one people – namely the Palestinians – has been in Trump’s crosshairs before.
In 2018, during his first term, the president cut the agency’s funding by some $300 million or about one-quarter of its budget. And this was before Oct. 7. Since then, NGO’s such as U.N. Watch have provided the receipts for just how compromised an organization UNRWA is, and how tightly it is enmeshed with terrorist leaders in Gaza and Lebanon.
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BREAKING: Trump to Halt Funding to UNRWA – JFeed https://t.co/MLkt7rnDDF
— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) January 20, 2025
This fact was brought home most starkly during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre on Israel’s southern communities. Despite United Nations protestations, the global body had to reluctantly admit at least nine of its staff members “may have been involved” in the terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of some 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers.
A White House policy adviser for the incoming Trump administration highlighted the rationale behind this move, stating, “The United States and American citizens have been some of the most generous people in the entire world. But at this point, we have to understand that foreign policy is domestic policy, and if this is not aligned with our interests, then Uncle Sam should not be opening up his pocketbook any longer.”
Former President Joe Biden signed a one-year ban on U.S. funding to UNRWA, as even his administration was disturbed by the proof of its employees’ depraved criminality in taking part in the October 2023 butchery.
Earlier in January, U.N. Watch published an extensive and explosive report which highlighted the depths of the collaboration between UNRWA officials and operatives in Gaza, accusing the U.N. body of forming an “unholy alliance with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organizations.”