UN chief sounds the alarm amid fears over possible DOGE-inspired cuts after Trump's order

UN Secretary-General António Guterres seems to beryllium bracing his unit up of imaginable changes successful U.S. overseas argumentation nether President Donald Trump. In a missive distributed to UN staff, Guterres warned of the "difficult challenge" facing the planetary body.

"I guarantee you that we are moving intimately with colleagues passim the United Nations strategy to recognize and mitigate the grade of its interaction connected our operations," Guterres wrote successful the letter.

"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. Together, we volition guarantee that our Organization continues to service radical successful request astir the satellite with unwavering commitment."

In effect to a Fox News petition for comment, Guterres’ spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, "From time one, US enactment for the United Nations has saved countless lives and precocious planetary security.  The Secretary-General looks guardant to continuing his productive narration with President Trump and the US Government to fortify that narration successful today’s turbulent world."

WHITE HOUSE DETAILS USAID PROGRAMS UNDER ELON MUSK'S MICROSCOPE

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

"As President Trump has indicated, the UN plays a important relation successful taking connected large challenges truthful that idiosyncratic countries don’t person to bash it connected their ain astatine acold greater expense. With the letter, the Secretary-General was keeping unit informed," Dujarric added.’

Former Principal Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Hugh Dugan told Fox News Digital that "UN entities from the apical down are feeling precise anxious," citing idiosyncratic highly elder successful the UN. Dugan believes that DOGE and his ain organization DOGE-UN are causes of interest for Guterres owed to "heightened accountability" from Washington. 

"And I deliberation that they’re going to person to scramble to amusement that they’ve been trustworthy with those resources and person been cautious successful accounting for their eventual disposition, due to the fact that I expect that we’re going to find that’s not been the case," Dugan said.

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

This missive was sent conscionable implicit 2 weeks aft President Trump issued his Executive Order connected Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid.

"It is the argumentation of the United States that nary further United States overseas assistance shall beryllium disbursed successful a mode that is not afloat aligned with the overseas argumentation of the President of the United States," Trump’s bid reads.

While the bid calls for a 90-day intermission successful overseas programs, it includes a clause giving Secretary of State Marco Rubio the authorization to "waive the intermission successful Section 3(a) for circumstantial programs."

Trump medication officials assertion to person uncovered respective areas of authorities discarded erstwhile it comes to overseas funding. This includes a $1.5 cardinal US Agency for International Development (USAID) task aimed astatine advancing DEI successful Serbian workplaces and a $2 cardinal programme promoting "LGBT activism" successful Guatemala.

In her archetypal briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that DOGE and OMB recovered "that determination was astir to beryllium $50 cardinal payer dollars that went retired the doorway to money condoms successful Gaza."

"That is simply a preposterous discarded of payer money. So that's what this intermission is focused on, being bully stewards of taxation dollars," Leavitt told reporters astatine the briefing.

At archetypal glance, the backing for condoms successful Gaza could look similar it would beryllium aimed astatine nationalist health. However, Hamas has utilized condoms successful the past to alert incendiary devices and IEDs into Israel, arsenic the Jerusalem Post reported successful 2020.

Trump deed retired astatine authorities spending during his 2024 statesmanlike campaign.  (Getty Images)

TRUMP CUTS US OFF FROM UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, BANS UNRWA FUNDING

During his 2024 campaign, Trump took purpose astatine authorities spending, yet introducing DOGE to tackle waste.

Following Trump’s order, Secretary Rubio paused each US overseas assistance programs funded by oregon done the State Department and USAID pending review.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

"Reviewing and realigning overseas assistance connected behalf of hardworking taxpayers is not conscionable the close happening to do, it is simply a motivation imperative," the State Department connection read. "The Secretary is arrogant to support America’s concern with a deliberate and judicious reappraisal of however we walk overseas assistance dollars overseas."

In the aforesaid statement, the State Department emphasized Secretary Rubio’s absorption connected ensuring the programs his section funds are moving for Americans and are "consistent with US overseas argumentation nether the America First agenda."