Leavitt attempted to justify the widely decried and possibly illegal federal spending freeze ordered by President Donald Trump via the Office of Management and Budget. “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,” she claimed. Trump donor and "DOGE Chair" Elon Musk amplified the made-up story on his X account. “Tip of iceberg,” Musk wrote, later adding, “My guess is that a lot of that money ended up in the pockets [of] Hamas, not actually condoms.”
The attempted attack on the Biden administration is a complete lie. In September, the U.S. Agency for International Development released a report on government spending on contraception and condom shipments made over the last year. Absolutely none of the $60.8 million was sent to Gaza or anywhere else in the Middle East.
Leavitt was also completely unable to inform the public about how vital services like Medicaid would be affected by the spending freeze-- another utterly embarrassing moment in Leavitt's debut presser. Considering the track record of Trump’s former press secretaries—Sean Spicer, Sarah Sanders, and Kayleigh McEnany—there will surely be many more lies to come.
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