{"id":77715,"date":"2026-08-21T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-administration-begins-transfer-of-725m-to-un-amid-billions-owed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:54:55","slug":"trump-administration-begins-transfer-of-725m-to-un-amid-billions-owed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-administration-begins-transfer-of-725m-to-un-amid-billions-owed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration begins transfer of $725m to UN, amid billions owed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN secretary general has said UN faces \u2018imminent financial collapse\u2019 due to unpaid contributions from member states<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has started the process to transfer $725m to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unitednations\">United Nations<\/a>, a congressional notification seen by Reuters \u2060showed \u2013 a move aid experts said \u2060was a welcome step towards paying \u200bbillions in dues owed.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from Washington DC to questions about the reasons for the payment from an administration that has slashed funding to many UN agencies and blasted the global body for not living up to \u2060its potential.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/trump-administration-united-nations-payment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN secretary general has said UN faces \u2018imminent financial collapse\u2019 due to unpaid contributions from member states The Trump administration has started the process to transfer $725m to the United Nations, a congressional notification seen by Reuters \u2060showed \u2013 a move aid experts said \u2060was a welcome step towards paying \u200bbillions in dues owed. There &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration begins transfer of $725m to UN, amid billions owed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/trump-administration-begins-transfer-of-725m-to-un-amid-billions-owed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration begins transfer of $725m to UN, amid billions owed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}