A senior member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has criticized the small amount of funding announced by the U.S. President for Sudan, describing it as a “shameful contribution.”
Representative Gregory W. Meeks, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement following the “Sudan Humanitarian Fund” event held on February 3 at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He noted that while the United Nations estimates humanitarian needs at $6 billion, Donald Trump pledged only $200 million.
In the statement, published on the committee’s website on Friday evening, the congressman said: “The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is the largest and most urgent in the world, with an estimated 33.7 million people in need of assistance. President Trump himself has called on the international community to do more, yet the United States is offering shamefully little.”
The lawmaker also mocked the U.S. pledge of $200 million for Sudan, saying it is “roughly half of what Trump spends on his ballroom, and a fraction of what the United States typically provides for a crisis of this magnitude. This is not only inadequate — it is a moral failure and an abandonment of American leadership.”
He further stressed that “the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid have only worsened the humanitarian situation in Sudan,” noting that the United States has the resources, the influence, and the responsibility, and that “the administration must do more, and urgently.”
