The United States on Monday pledged $2 ‍billion in life-saving assistance to tens of millions of people facing hunger and disease in more than a dozen countries next year, the State Department said in a statement, following major foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration in ⁠2025. The US slashed its aid spending this year, and leading Western donors such as Germany also pared back assistance as they pivoted to increased defense spending, triggering a severe funding crunch for the United Nations.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The billions of dollars in assistance pledged by the United States on Monday will be overseen by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ‍Affairs (OCHA), the State Department said.The State Department described it as a new model of assistance agreed with ‍the UN ‍that aims to make ⁠aid funding and delivery more efficient.UN ‌data shows total US humanitarian ⁠contributions to the UN fell