Leavitt Lied That Biden Sent $50M In Condoms To Gaza

The Guardian reports:

“Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza,” Leavitt claimed. “That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on: being good stewards of tax dollars.” While Leavitt did not offer any evidence to support this claim, and was not pressed to by reporters, the idea that the US government planned to spend $50 million to send condoms to Gaza quickly went viral, with an assist from Musk himself.

The Fox pundit Jesse Watters even claimed that the condoms were being used by Hamas militants as balloons to float explosives into Israel. According to a comprehensive report issued in September by the US Agency for International Development (USAid), not a penny of the $60.8m in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the US in the past year went to Gaza. In fact, the accounting shows, there were no condoms sent to any part of the Middle East.

Read the full article. Leavitt opened her first press briefing yesterday by promising to always tell the truth. But it doesn’t matter. Musk backed up the lie and now it’s gospel for tens of millions.