President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is not hoarding lump-sum payments from member states and collecting on each nation’s pledges bit by bit as required for its projects in Gaza instead.The international committee, of which Trump is the inaugural and permanent chairman, received pledges of $1 billion from dozens of charter members. However, an official involved with Board of Peace operations told the Washington Examiner that “the goal is not to go around and hoard significant sums of cash,” instead calling up partners for contribution when an immediate need is identified.“If we had $17,000,000,000, we wouldn’t be able to spend it. It wouldn’t be responsible to collect that amount to do nothing with it. The goal is to collect the funds necessary as the projects are ready to be implemented,” the official told the Washington Examiner.
President Donald Trump, center, applauds as Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, left, and Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov, right, hold up their signed Board of Peace charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
The official claimed individual nations step in to contribute to projects they deem relevant and asserted that the board has always “received funding in the instances where we’ve sought it.”
