Rubio’s foreign aid freezing applies to millions in financing for ‘Condoms in Gaza’

State Secretary Marco Rubio’s decision to freeze foreign assistance over the weekend included drawing millions of dollars value of US funding for “condoms in Gaza”, a white house official told Fox News Digital.

Revelation came when the official explained that a separate memo from Office of Management and Budget will temporarily set grants, loans and federal aid programs pending a review of financing, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), The Green New Deal and Financing of Non -state organizations (NGOs) “that undermine the national interest.”

“If the activity is not in conflict with the president’s priorities, it will continue without any problems,” the White House Officer told Fox News Digital. “This is similar to how HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) stopped the flow of reimbursement money to WHO (World Health Organization) after President Trump announced the United States to Condoms in Gaza this past weekend.”

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Fox News Digital reached the State Department on Tuesday and sought additional information.

In his first orientation on Tuesday, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and OBM found “that there were $ 50 million taxpayers dollars going out the door to finance condoms in Gaza. “

“It’s an inappropriate waste of taxpayers’ money. So that’s what this break is focused on being good managers of tax dollars,” Leavitt told journalists. She said DOGE and OBM also found that $ 37 million was about to be sent to WHO before Trump’s executive order breaks ties with the global health organ.

Jerusalem Post Reported by 2020 that scores of condoms were used to create IED-bearing balloons that would lead into southern Israel and raise the alarm on school leaders, agricultural land and highways.

At that time, the post reported that they improvised explosion devices – floating into Israel via inflated contraception – burning thousands of hectares of land and causing “millions of corks of damage.” It is not clear whether practice will continue.

Only two days after October 7, 2023, attacked attacks involving Hamas Terrorists brutally raping some of the approx. 1,200 people killed in southern Israel and hundreds of others (IPPF) released a statement of the resulting war and escalating violence.

NGO claimed that any blockade of relief shipments to Gaza would violate their “huge gains made in life -saving sexual and reproductive healthcare services in this region.”

“Palestinians are systematically denied sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights,” said the CEO of a similar NGO, the Palestinian family planning and protection association (PFPPA), at that time. “Our health system has repeatedly been targeted and depleted by the Israeli occupation, and the more it breaks down, the more it will prevent the full realization of these rights rights for women and girls.”

On Sunday, Rubio paused all US foreign aids financed by or through the state department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for review.

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The move came in response to Trump’s executive order, “Recognition and adaptation of the United States’ foreign aid,” issued last week and conducted a sweeping 90-day break on most US foreign assistance paid through the Ministry of State.

The Ministry of State said on Sunday that Rubio began a review of “all foreign aid programs to ensure that they are effective and consistent with the US foreign policy according to America First Agenda.”

“President Trump clearly stated that the United States no longer goes to blindly smooth money without returning to the American people. Reviewing and adapting foreign assistance on behalf of hard -working taxpayers is not just the right thing to do is a moral imperative.

“The mandate of the American people was clear – we must focus on American national interests,” the statement added. “The department and USAID take their role as stewards for taxpayers ‘dollars very seriously. The implementation of this executive order and the direction of the secretary promotes this mission. As State Secretary Marco Rubio has said,’ Every dollar we spend, every program we finance, and each Politics we are pursuing must be justified with the answer to three simple questions: Does it make America safer?

Rubio had specifically exempted only emergency food programs and military assistance to Israel and Egypt from Frysen on foreign aid.

On Monday, at least 56 Senior USAID officials were placed on leave pending a study of alleged efforts to avert Trump’s orders, Associated Press reported, citing a current official and a former US official.

An internal USAID message sent late on Monday and obtained by the AP said the new acting administrator Jason Gray had identified “Multiple actions within USAID appear to be designed to bypass the president’s executive orders and mandate from the American people. ” “As a result, we have placed a number of USAID employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits so far while ending our analysis of these actions,” Gray wrote.

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The senior agency’s officials who were on leave were experienced employees who had earned in several administrations, including Trumps, the former USAID official said.

Associated Press contributed to this report.