Trump Board of Peace Presents $2.45 Billion Gaza Recovery Plan at UN General Assembly

The plan's conditional structure, requiring Hamas disarmament before reconstruction funding flows, creates a sequencing question that will define whether international donors commit capital or wait.

President Donald Trump's Board of Peace presented a $2.45 billion Gaza recovery framework on September 23, 2026, at a briefing held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, according to reporting by the Washington Examiner, whose correspondent attended the event.

The $2.45 billion figure covers the first six months of operations following entry into Gaza, according to the Washington Examiner account. The briefing document described the total as subject to funding and access, meaning the full amount has not been appropriated or committed by any single government or institution as of the date of the presentation.

The framework presented by the Board of Peace addressed three central governance questions: who administers the territory, who provides security, and how civilian families rebuild following the period of active conflict. The Washington Examiner report describes these as the questions the plan's authors identified as determinative for Gaza's long-term future.

The plan's sequencing is explicit: disarmament by Hamas is positioned as a precondition for the reconstruction phase to begin. This structure means no reconstruction funding flows, under the plan as described, until armed disarmament is verified. The mechanism for verifying that disarmament, and which entity would certify it, was not specified in the publicly available summary of the briefing.

The Board of Peace is a Trump administration diplomatic body. Its precise statutory basis, membership roster, and formal authority have not been confirmed in a public congressional record or executive order that has been made available as of September 23, 2026. What document would clarify this is a formal executive order or Federal Register notice establishing the board.

The briefing was held at the UN General Assembly's annual high-level week in New York, a diplomatic gathering where the United States regularly conducts bilateral and multilateral meetings. The timing placed the Gaza plan alongside other active diplomatic tracks being discussed at the same session.

Congress holds appropriations authority over any U.S. Government contribution to a recovery fund of this scale. No congressional appropriation for this specific $2.45 billion plan has been identified in publicly available spending records on USASpending.gov as of the publication of this article. Whether the administration intends to request a supplemental appropriation, direct existing foreign assistance accounts, or seek contributions from Gulf state partners is not stated in the available briefing summary.

The United States has previously committed funding to Gaza-related humanitarian and reconstruction efforts through multiple administrations. Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Contributed to UN Relief and Works Agency operations and separate humanitarian pipelines. The Trump administration has taken a different approach to UNRWA, having previously supported congressional efforts to restrict its funding. How the new plan interacts with existing U.S. Restrictions on UNRWA is not addressed in the available source material.

International donor participation would likely be required for a $2.45 billion first-phase effort. Gulf Cooperation Council states, the European Union, and the World Bank have each been involved in prior Gaza reconstruction discussions. None of those parties' commitments to this specific plan have been confirmed in publicly available statements as of September 23, 2026.

What remains unknown includes the full text of the Board of Peace recovery framework, the list of international parties who attended or received the briefing, the specific disarmament verification mechanism, and the administration's planned congressional notification or appropriations request. The Office of Management and Budget budget submissions and any supplemental appropriations request filed with the House Appropriations Committee would be the documents to watch for the U.S. Funding component.