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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision to freeze foreign aid over the weekend included pulling millions of dollars-worth of US funding for “condoms in Gaza,” a White House official told Fox News Digital. The revelation came as the official explained that a separate memo from the Office of Management and Budget will temporarily pause grants, loans and federal assistance programs pending a review into whether the funding coincides with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, such as those related to ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the Green New Deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) “that undermine the national interest.” “If the activity is not in conflict with the President’s priorities, it will continue with no issues,” the White House official told Fox News Digital.“This is similar to how HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] stopped the flow of grant money to the WHO [World Health Organization] after President Trump announced the US withdrawal from the organization.
Or how the State Department halted several million dollars going to condoms in Gaza this past weekend.” Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department on Tuesday seeking additional information. In her first-ever briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the OBM found “that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”“That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.So that’s what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” Leavitt told reporters.
She said DOGE and OBM also found $37 million was about to be sent to the WHO before Trump’s executive order breaking ties with the global health body.The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms were being used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, raising alarm o...