Urge Congress to protect funding for UNICEF
When you speak up for children, legislators will listen.
With a 214-212 vote, the House narrowly passed the Rescissions Act of 2025 (H.R. 4), which would eliminate the core funding UNICEF relies on to carry out its mission—including vital food security programs that contribute to stability in key regions, and activities to stop new public health pandemics from spreading across borders including to the USA.
The measure is now with the Senate, where it will only need a simple majority to advance to the President's desk.
The Rescissions Act of 2025 reflects the rescission package the White House submitted to Congress in early June, asking to reclaim funding for critical humanitarian programs, including UNICEF’s lifesaving work for children. The funding was already signed into law.
UNICEF stands at the forefront of global disease prevention and nutrition. In 2024 alone, UNICEF reached 441 million children under five across 130 countries with essential services to prevent malnutrition—including 9.3 million children treated for severe wasting and other forms of acute malnutrition. Beyond saving children’s lives, this critical work strengthens communities and helps build resilience against the conditions that allow extremism to take root. UNICEF’s essential health services have also protected more than 400 million children from developing and spreading deadly, chronic, and dangerous diseases.
Rescinding this funding for UNICEF would directly put the lives and futures of the most vulnerable children at risk, would increase threats to America's security, and would undermine American moral leadership.
We strongly urge Congress to immediately reject this rescission of UNICEF's funding. UNICEF is supported by Americans across all 50 states and has enjoyed decades of bipartisan backing. Cutting this funding would significantly impact critical work around the world that makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous.