Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday, January 288, that the Trump administration froze a $50 million federal disbursement for “c0ndoms in Gaza.”
The Office of Management and Budget, and the newly-formed
Department of Government Efficiency “found that there was about to be $50
million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,”
Leavitt told reporters.
“That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
That’s what this pause is focused on: being good stewards of tax dollars.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a widespread freeze
on foreign aid and domestic grant programs in what the White House has said is
an effort to align federal spending with the administration’s agenda under the
DOGE and Office of Management and Budget.
The U.S. Agency for International Development runs a family
planning and reproductive health program in 41 countries but does not list Gaza
or Israel as a recipient of that aid.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends
that travellers to “Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza” bring “latex
c0ndoms” with them “to prevent illness or injury.”
In 2020, Hamas reportedly used condoms inflated with helium
to send firebombs into Israel.
Speaking at the first White House press briefing of the new
administration, Leavitt said that Trump intends to stand by his decision to
remove the security details of former officials under threat from Iran after
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the president to “revisit” that decision on
Monday.
“He does not believe American taxpayers should fund security
details for individuals who have served in the government for the rest of their
lives,” Leavitt said. “There’s nothing stopping these individuals that you
mentioned from obtaining private security.”
Asked if the Trump administration intended to investigate
Biden administration officials, who provided funding to the U.N.’s Palestinian
aid agency UNRWA and to remove Yemen’s Houthi rebels from the State
Department’s list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Leavitt said
that was not under discussion.
“It wouldn’t be a bad idea, considering that the Houthis
certainly are terrorists,” she said
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