White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio‘s latest suspension of overseas help included the withdrawal of thousands and thousands of {dollars} allotted for “condoms in Gaza.”
Leaviit mentioned this whereas she was briefing about an order from the Workplace of Administration and Finances to briefly droop grants, loans and federal help programmes. This pause permits for an evaluation to find out if the funding aligns with President Donald Trump‘s govt directives, significantly these regarding the elimination of variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the Inexperienced New Deal, and assist for nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) deemed opposite to nationwide pursuits.
“If the exercise will not be in battle with the President’s priorities, it is going to proceed with no points. That is just like how HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] stopped the stream of grant cash to the WHO [World Health Organization] after President Trump introduced the U.S. withdrawal from the group. Or how the State Division halted a number of million {dollars} going to condoms in Gaza this previous weekend,” she mentioned in her first press briefing.
“That may be a preposterous waste of taxpayer cash. So that is what this pause is concentrated on, being good stewards of tax {dollars},” Leavitt instructed reporters.
She revealed that DOGE and OBM recognized a further $37 million that was set to be transferred to the WHO earlier than Trump’s govt order terminated relations with the worldwide well being organisation.
In 2020, The Jerusalem Publish documented that quite a few condoms have been being utilised to assemble IED-carrying balloons, which might drift in direction of southern Israel, inflicting misery in instructional services, agricultural areas and motorways.
The publication talked about that these explosive gadgets, transported by inflated contraceptives into Israel, devastated 1000’s of hectares of terrain and resulted in “thousands and thousands of shekels of injury.”
