US funding condoms in Gaza? Musk reacts

Throughout a press briefing on Tuesday, US press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned that the DOGE and Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB) had found that $50 million had been being utilized by the federal government to fund condoms in Gaza.

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Elon Musk reacted to the information, calling it the “tip of the iceberg” and mentioned on his platform X, “My guess is that a number of that cash ended up within the pockets Hamas, not truly condoms.”

He added in one other publish, “Sure, even within the unlikely occasion that the cash was truly spent on condoms, we must always NOT be sending US taxpayer cash to purchase condoms for foreigners.”

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Musk additionally responded to a publish by a consumer who claimed that the condoms had been getting used to move IEDs and had been used to hold incendiary materials to hurt Israeli residents.

He jokingly replied to the message saying, “Explains why all of the condom orders had been magnum.”

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Press secretary Leavitt, took a extra critical notice and mentioned that the earlier authorities’s funding of contraceptives in Gaza was “preposterous waste of taxpayer cash.”

She added, “That is what this pause is concentrated on – being good stewards of tax {dollars}.”

Leavitt didn’t supply any proof of the funding, although information company AFP famous that condoms price lower than a greenback within the US and the inhabitants of Gaza is round two million individuals solely.

The White Home additionally claimed {that a} freeze in US abroad help was as a result of discovery of this condom distribution scheme.