The Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) and the Workplace of Administration and Funds (OMB) have recognized a deliberate $50 million allocation by the earlier Biden administration meant for condom distribution in Gaza.
White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized this expenditure as a “preposterous waste of taxpayer cash.”
“DOGE and OMB have truly discovered that there was $37 million that was about to exit the door to the World Well being Group, which is a company, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that govt order, now not needs the USA to be part of. In order that wouldn’t be in step with the President’s agenda,” Leavitt mentioned throughout her first press convention.
“DOGE and OMB additionally discovered that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer {dollars} that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That may be a preposterous method taxpayer cash. In order that’s what this pause is targeted on, being good stewards of tax {dollars},” she added.
This comes after the Trump administration said that a new memo from the Workplace of Administration and Funds will quickly halt grants and loans whereas reviewing whether or not the funding aligns with President Donald Trump’s govt orders.
These orders embody ending initiatives associated to variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI), the Inexperienced New Deal, and financing for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) “that undermine the nationwide curiosity.”
Nonetheless, Decide Loren AliKhan, a Biden appointee, granted a temporary stay on Trump’s plan to freeze federal funding.
AliKhan’s order is about to run out on February 3 at 5 p.m.
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BREAKING: DOGE and OMB (Workplace of Administration and Funds) discovered that the Biden admin was about to ship $37M to the World Well being Group and $50M to fund condoms for Gaza. pic.twitter.com/u0gtiLQbwX
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The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms had been getting used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, elevating alarm on schoolyards, farmlands and highways.
On the time, the Submit reported that the improvised explosive gadgets – floated into Israel by way of inflated contraceptives – burned 1000’s of hectares of land and precipitated “tens of millions of shekels of harm.” It’s not clear if the apply continues.
Simply two days after the Oct. 7, 2023, assaults, which concerned Hamas terrorists brutally raping a few of the roughly 1,200 individuals killed in southern Israel and lots of of others introduced again into Gaza as hostages, a world NGO often called the Worldwide Deliberate Parenthood Federation (IPPF) launched a press release concerning the ensuing warfare and escalating violence.
The NGO claimed that any blockade of support shipments into Gaza would infringe on their “monumental positive factors made in life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare on this area.”
“Palestinians are systematically denied sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights,” the chief director of a corresponding NGO, the Palestinian Household Planning and Safety Affiliation (PFPPA), mentioned on the time. “Our well being system has been repeatedly focused and depleted by the Israeli occupation, and the extra it disintegrates, the extra it would hinder the total realization of those rights for girls and ladies.”
Andrew Miller, previously the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs underneath Joe Biden, describes the declare as “outlandish.”
“It’s potential that $50 million is put apart for sexual well being or one thing of that nature, which would come with gynecology and plenty of different providers, however undoubtedly not condoms alone,” he informed The Times of Israel.
