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there is some question if all the money was for condom (bombs), Planned Parenthoood said the ,pney is for "reproductive health"
Whatever,,,why are we spending money on condoms/Gaza reproductive health?
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Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department on Tuesday seeking additional information and was later referred to an X thread by State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
Bruce listed several examples of how the pause in foreign assistance has allowed the State Department to prevent "unjustified and non-emergency" spending, including on condoms. The funding freeze "prevented $102 million in unjustified funding to a contractor in Gaza, including money for contraception," the spokesperson said.
The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms were being used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, raising alarm on schoolyards, farmlands and highways.
e NGO claimed that any blockade of aid shipments into Gaza would infringe on their "enormous gains made in life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare in this region."
"Palestinians are systematically denied sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights," the executive director of a corresponding NGO, the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA), said at the time. "Our health system has been repeatedly targeted and depleted by the Israeli occupation, and the more it disintegrates, the more it will hinder the full realization of these rights for women and girls."
On Sunday, Rubio paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for review.
On Monday, at least 56 senior USAID officials were placed on leave pending an investigation into alleged efforts to thwart Trump's orders, the Associated Press reported, citing a current official and a former official at USAID.
An internal USAID notice sent late Monday and obtained by the AP said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified "several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people." "As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions," Gray wrote.
Whatever,,,why are we spending money on condoms/Gaza reproductive health?
State Dept pulls millions in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending
The State Department paused several millions of dollars for "condoms in Gaza," as reports say the contraceptives were used as bomb-carrying balloons.
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Bruce listed several examples of how the pause in foreign assistance has allowed the State Department to prevent "unjustified and non-emergency" spending, including on condoms. The funding freeze "prevented $102 million in unjustified funding to a contractor in Gaza, including money for contraception," the spokesperson said.
The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms were being used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, raising alarm on schoolyards, farmlands and highways.
e NGO claimed that any blockade of aid shipments into Gaza would infringe on their "enormous gains made in life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare in this region."
"Palestinians are systematically denied sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights," the executive director of a corresponding NGO, the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA), said at the time. "Our health system has been repeatedly targeted and depleted by the Israeli occupation, and the more it disintegrates, the more it will hinder the full realization of these rights for women and girls."
On Sunday, Rubio paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for review.
On Monday, at least 56 senior USAID officials were placed on leave pending an investigation into alleged efforts to thwart Trump's orders, the Associated Press reported, citing a current official and a former official at USAID.
An internal USAID notice sent late Monday and obtained by the AP said new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified "several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President’s Executive Orders and the mandate from the American people." "As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions," Gray wrote.
