No US government funding was used to procure or distribute condoms,' International Medical Corps says in statement following Trump's claims - Anadolu Ajansı

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved some waivers for emergency food aid and some salaries after President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt and reevaluate all foreign development assistance prompted an outcry among aid groups around the world.

A separate U.S. program that provides contraceptives internationally spent $60 million worldwide in one year, but Gaza was not among the recipients.

President Donald Trump said his administration blocked $50 million for condoms to be sent to Gaza through its pause on foreign aid. But it has provided no evidence that $50 million was ever directed toward condoms for Gaza.

During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team,

President Donald Trump has bizarrely lied that the U.S. was sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas then used to make bombs.

Neither the White House nor any federal agency has provided evidence for a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza.

Claims about US funding for condoms in Gaza stem from misinterpreted details of a broader USAID medical assistance package.

CLAIM: The Trump administration stopped $50 million from being sent to the Gaza Strip to buy condoms for Hamas.

Of all the things that could be used to make bombs, would condoms be at the top of anyone’s list? According to President Donald Trump, that’s exactly what Hamas is doing, and thank God for Trump because he put a stop to it,

The statement cited "examples of this egregious funding", which they said included $102m for the International Medical Corps in Gaza; $12.3m for USAID's Bureau for Resilience, Environment ...

Both President Trump and his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, have claimed that the administration has stopped a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza as part of the new administration’s reevaluation of federal funding.