What we know about Trump’s claim that they have planned to spend $ 50 million on a gauze condoms now
Both President Trump and his print secretary, Caroline Leavitt, claimed that the administration stopped the plan to spend $ 50 million on a gauze condoms as part of the reconsideration of the federal financing of the new administration.
“We identified and stopped $ 50 million sent to Gaza to buy Hamas condoms,” he said on Wednesday. “They used them as a method of making bombs.”
USA’s USA said In 2021. Hamas and other militant groups have a history of launching burning balloons towards Israel. Previous photos taken by Associated Press in 2020. They show masked men that attach flammable devices to condoms and gas filled balloons.
However, neither Trump nor officials in his administration provided evidence of the program to which they refer or whether Hamas used condoms as a weapon in his war with Israel. The Office for Management and Budget and the US International Development Agency (USAID) did not answer CBS News questions. State departmental department’s available figures show that the previous courses for contraception, including condoms, cost far less than $ 50 million in the Middle East.
Without stating whether it was a program that included a $ 50 million number, a spokeswoman for State Department Tammy Bruce said That the federal break in foreign aid involved the prevention of $ 102 million “unjustified financing” contractor in Gaza, “including money for contraception.”
In the E -firing journalists, Bruce added that the administration has stopped $ 102 million funding with an international medical corpus for Gaza.
In a newsThe International Medical Corps, a global assistance organization based in Los Angeles, replied that he had received about $ 68 million from USAid on October 7, 2023, and used funding to manage two field hospitals in Gaza.
“The financing of the US Government has not been used to procure or distribute condom,” the organization statement said.
The last available report on the network on the contraceptives and sequences of condom with USAIDs, Fiscal year 2023He says he is the only shipment of contraceptives to the Middle East of the Fiscal 2019, made in Jordan and cost $ 45,680. The shipment contained injection and oral contraceptives, not condoms.
According to USAID reports, the consignment of contraceptives in the Middle East do not occur annually. In the decade before the Fiscal year in 2023, there were only two shipments, including one in the Fiscal 2019 and one in the Fiscal 2013. Fiscal year 2019USAID spent a total of $ 1.1 million on the contraceptives for Yemen, and condoms made up 4% of the total value.
It is unclear whether there were planned shipments of contraceptives in Gaza for the Fiscal Year 2025, but the total value of all contraceptives delivered from USAIDs from USAIDs was $ 60 million in the Fiscal year 2023, which included shipments in 23 countries.
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