Um, how are people reading those decisions, and, and what do you all think about that?

The UN's finances are in pretty poor shape, but not as bad as we would have assessed three, four months ago.

A lot of the current financial shock is due to the Trump administration's refusal to- Either pay what it is obliged to give the UN as part of the annual assessed dues that all UN members pay and also the significant portions of humanitarian aid that the US has either frozen or reduced since Trump came back to office last January.

The-- So the UN has about sixty-eight billion in revenue overall.

Eighty percent of that comes from voluntary funding and twenty percent comes from the obligatory fees that all UN members pay.

And there are two ways to break this down.

So historically, the US has paid around ten billion of the eighty percent on voluntary contributions to humanitarian aid.

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