Karoline Leavitt says DOGE found that $50M worth of condoms were being sent to Gaza
Karoline Leavitt says DOGE found that $50M worth of condoms were being sent to Gaza
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In a new form press briefing, allowing social media influencers and TikTokers into the press room, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced a halt on condom shipments to Gaza. The US will halt $50 million worth of condoms due to be shipped to Gaza, Donald Trump’s new 27-year-old press secretary said.
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the White House Office for Management and Budget (OMB) found “that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza”, Karoline Leavitt claimed to reporters at the new-look briefing.
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“That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” Leavitt said in the press briefing, which she told reporters will no longer be reserved for the legacy media but will now include social media influencers and podcasters.
Condoms are a common element of foreign aid shipments. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) says condoms play an “important role within USAID's HIV prevention, care, and treatment efforts.”. Musk, who is leading the Trump administration’s DOGE department, described the cut as the “tip of the iceberg”, adding in a post on X, without evidence: “My guess is that a lot of that money ended up in the pockets Hamas, not actually condoms.”.
