Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, made a similar claim on Tuesday during her debut news briefing. She stated that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) "found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza."
She called the alleged aid "a preposterous waste of taxpayer money".
Jesse Watters, host of a conservative-leaning talk show on Fox News, said Hamas was using the nonexistent US shipments to make "condom bombs", floating explosives-laden balloons into Israel. Did he share any evidence to back up that bomb-astic claim? No.
The chuds, some of them are fine people, but they're not sending their best 
An April USAID report shows that the US delivered $60.8m in contraceptives and condoms to four regions – the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean – in the previous fiscal year.
The Middle East received just $45,681 while Africa received more than $54m, or 89 percent, of the contraceptives in fiscal year 2023.
The report added that the $45,681 was made entirely to Jordan and included oral contraceptives and injectable contraceptives but did not include condoms.
Sorry Palestinians, African kings need those condoms more 
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I just want to know how many rubbers does 50 mil buy?
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In the article it says they're procured for something like 5 cents a condom. The breakdown doesn't go into detail, but they're probably not spending all that on a billion condoms.
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Even if a third of the cost is just shipping the rubbers to Africa and distributing them that's an insane number of prophylactics.
Even if it's just 30 mil for rubbers and 20 for logistics that's like 6 billion jimmy hats.
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