Neither the White House nor any federal agency has provided evidence for a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza.
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During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team,
No US government funding was used to procure or distribute condoms,' International Medical Corps says in statement following Trump's claims - Anadolu Ajansı
There is no evidence that the U.S. earmarked $50 million in condoms to Gaza, or that it has recently spent $50 million on condoms in Gaza. On X, a State Department spokesperson said the freeze stopped $100 million in funding to Gaza which included money for contraception.
Donald Trump claimed his administration had stopped $50 million from being sent to the Gaza Strip to buy condoms for Hamas.
CLAIM: The Trump administration stopped $50 million from being sent to the Gaza Strip to buy condoms for Hamas.
The US president has listed the stopping of condoms to Gaza as an accomplishment. But is he thinking of the wrong Gaza?
The four female IDF soldiers taken hostage by Hamas were transferred, in military uniform, to the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday.
Aid experts have dismissed Trump's claim that $50 million was being spent on condoms for Gaza, with it being used to justify aid cuts.
Eight of the remaining hostages set to be released by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel are dead, according to an Israeli government spokesperson.