The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) have identified a planned $50 million allocation by the previous Biden administration intended for condom distribution in Gaza.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized this expenditure as a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”
“DOGE and OMB have actually found that there was $37 million that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, no longer wants the United States to be a part of. So that wouldn’t be in line with the President’s agenda,” Leavitt said during her first press conference.
“DOGE and OMB also 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 way taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” she added.
This comes after the Trump administration stated that a new memo from the Office of Management and Budget will temporarily halt grants and loans while reviewing whether the funding aligns with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
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