State Dept pulls millions in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending

Fox News ^ | updated January 28, 2025 2:23pm EST | Danielle Wallace

[Texas Fossil]

Hamas have used condoms as bomb-carrying balloons to terrorize Israel, reports say

Secretary of State Marco Rubio's decision to freeze foreign aid over the weekend included pulling millions of dollars-worth of U.S. funding for "condoms in Gaza," a White House official told Fox News Digital.

The revelation came as the official explained that a separate memo from the Office of Management and Budget will temporarily pause grants, loans and federal assistance programs pending a review into whether the funding coincides with President Donald Trump's executive orders, such as those related to ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the Green New Deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) "that undermine the national interest."

"If the activity is not in conflict with the President’s priorities, it will continue with no issues," the White House official told Fox News Digital. "This is similar to how HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] stopped the flow of grant money to the WHO [World Health Organization] after President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the organization. Or how the State Department halted several million dollars going to condoms in Gaza this past weekend."

[Texas Fossil]

In her first-ever briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the OBM found "that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza."

DOGE and OBM caught this in a weekend review.

Pure Insanity!

[No name given]

Obviously.

[MNJohnnie]

We can outsource population control in Gaza to Israel.

[stanne]

Holy Crap!

These people don’t know how to get ahead of dad’s car just pulled into the driveway everyone out

They’ve need running this country these idiots

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Actually, birth control is something that would be a benefit to Gaza.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Incendiary-balloons-launched-from-Gaza-are-often-condoms-616619

Israel’s defense establishment does not use the word “condoms.” It’s not the most politically correct word. Instead, it refers to all the aerial IEDs, including condoms, as “balloons.”

[cdcdawg]

“Hamas have used condoms as bomb-carrying balloons to terrorize Israel, reports say”

Not really the issue, but, if you need another reason on this...

[llevrok]

No more rain coats for Gaza!

[ComputerGuy]

Good one!

[Enterprise]

Outrageous expenditure. Use the money instead to line them and give them irreversible vasectomies and tubal ligations.

[Texas Fossil]

Gaza is almost leveled. The final touch needs to be the total elimination of Hamas and Hezbollah.

[Texas Fossil]

It is a 50 Million dollar issue.

[EasySt]

Everyone in the State Department and elsewhere, involved in funding condom balloon bombing of Israel, should be tried for treason.

[Jeff Chandler]

The check bounced. That means it was a . . .

[Texas Fossil]

There is also a link in the Box article with an illustration.

[Texas Fossil]

$50,000,000 ?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Uh, Mohammad, you're doing it wrong!"

[mad_as_he$$]

$50 million is a lot of 5.56mm. Just saying.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

True. That is excessive to say the least.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Hamas have used condoms”

Yeah, lots of people have used condoms, but everybody but the Hamassholes knows how to dispose of them properly.