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'When Did that Become Normal?' UN Chief Slams Trump as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

UN humanitarian chief warns that $2 billion daily war spending could fund life-saving aid for 87 million people, as agency faces a 50% budget cut.

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US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is costing nearly $2 billion per day, according to a Harvard analysis based on estimates from the Pentagon. The head of the United Nations’ humanitarian agency said the money could instead be used to save more than 87 million lives around the world.Tom Fletcher, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

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The head of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations (UN), Tom Fletcher, yesterday criticized the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, noting that the $2 billion a week destined for the conflict could have financed the rescue of more than 87 million lives.

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Donald Trump’s $2 billion a week in his reckless war against Iran could have saved more than 87 million lives, UN humanitarian agency director Tom Fletcher said Monday.

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The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Thomas Fletcher, said on Monday that the money spent by the United States in the conflict against Iran could save millions of people around the world. In a conference in London, Fletcher mentioned the economic and social impacts caused by the war, and warned that the normalization of violent discourses is a gift for autocrats. — For each day of this conflict, $2 billion is s…

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The head of the UN's humanitarian agency warned that spending around $2 billion a day on the war in Iran is "reckless," and that this amount could have been used to save the lives of more than 87 million people globally.

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Globo broke the news in Brazil on Monday, April 20, 2026.
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