Color me a bit skeptical on this one. The UN always claims it doesn’t have enough money, but never lets that interrupt the fine dining experiences of its upper brass, let alone force them to put up with the color.

But it’s also too good not to share.

U.S. President Donald Trump is withholding the transfer of several budgets to the United Nations so far and the international organization, which is currently experiencing a serious economic crisis due to a sharp decline in its financial resources, has been forced to take drastic measures. According to a letter obtained by Ynet, the UN headquarters in New York has already begun making significant cuts, which are affecting the organization’s ongoing activities.

Among the steps taken: cutting translation services; reducing live broadcasts of plenary debates; stopping holding meetings after 6:00 p.m.; shortening the length of reports by 10%; limiting the number of meetings with translation and interpretation services; delays in producing official minutes; lowering the temperature in the offices to save on heating costs; and even closing one of the main entrances to the UN headquarters on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

According to the letter, signed by the UN Secretary-General’s Chief of Staff, Earle Courtenay Rattray, these steps are necessary to ensure that the organization can continue to operate, at least until the end of the year. “Without immediate spending restrictions, we will not be able to meet our financial obligations from September to December,” the document states. It was also emphasized that due to the severity of the situation, the drastic measures taken last year will also continue, with new restrictions added to all key UN departments.

Some of this ought to be easy enough to check. If I were in New York City, I could just stroll up there and check the entrance.

And you could view this as the UN trying to cry poverty to pressure top diplomats to get their governments to pay up.

Or maybe if the UN lowers the temperature enough, they’ll just leave. That ought to fix global warming and the UN both.