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Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true

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By Daniel Dale, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.

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  1. Rolling Stone

    Trump Repeats Lie That U.S. Spent $50 Million on Condoms for Gaza (opens Rolling Stone)

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    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt launched a false claim about shipping $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza.

  2. Newsweek

    Donald Trump blocks $50 million funding for condoms in Gaza (opens Newsweek)

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    White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that $50 million in federal funding was previously earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza, per DOGE and OMB.

  3. CNN

    Fact check: $50 million for ‘condoms in Gaza’? Five big reasons to be skeptical that Trump press secretary’s story is true (opens CNN)

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    During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team, she said, used the president’s pause on foreign aid to thwart a plan in which “there was about to be…

  4. The New Republic

    No, Trump Didn’t Block $50 Million in Condoms to Gaza (opens The New Republic)

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    Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted this was the reason for freezing Medicaid.

  5. CBS News

    What we know about Trump (opens CBS News)

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    Neither the White House nor any federal agency has provided evidence for a plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza.

  6. Legal Insurrection

    State Dept. Halts $50 Million 'to Fund Condoms in Gaza' (opens Legal Insurrection)

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    Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money."

  7. Latin Times

    Trump Administration Says No More Condoms For Gaza, Halts $50 Million Funding (opens Latin Times)

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    Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the expense a "preposterous waste of taxpayer money" and underscored that it did not align with the administration's "America First" policy.

  8. KTVZ Bend

    Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true (opens KTVZ Bend)

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    By Daniel Dale, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.

  9. New York Post

    State Dept pulls millions in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending (opens New York Post)

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

  10. Al-Monitor

    Aid experts dismiss Trump's 'Gaza condoms' spending claim (opens Al-Monitor)

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    US aid experts on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump's claim that the United States had spent $50 million to fund condoms for the war-battered Gaza Strip, which the president has sought to make a poster child for wasteful spending.

  11. Al Jazeera

    Is the US sending $50m in condoms to Gaza as Trump claims? (opens Al Jazeera)

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    The US president has listed the stopping of condoms to Gaza as an accomplishment. But is he thinking of the wrong Gaza?

  12. The Columbian

    FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas (opens The Columbian)

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    During a signing ceremony Wednesday for the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.

  13. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas (opens St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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    There’s no credible evidence to support the claims made by the president.

  14. PolitiFact

    The U.S. did not spend $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza (opens PolitiFact)

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    There is no evidence that President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze stopped $50 million worth of condoms from going to

  15. Reason

    The White House's ‘feverish dream’ about $50 million for condoms in Gaza (opens Reason)

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    The Trump administration made an extreme claim about $50 million in wasteful foreign aid—and hasn’t backed it up.

  16. AL.com

    Is the US spending $50 million for condoms for Hamas? Here are the facts behind White House claim (opens AL.com)

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    Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, called the alleged aid “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”

  17. Green Field Reporter

    FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas - The Daily Reporter (opens Green Field Reporter)

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    During a signing ceremony Wednesday for the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, made a similiar claim on Tuesday during her deb…

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