Did Trump stop the U.S. from sending $50M worth of condoms to Gaza?

This week, President Donald Trump claimed to have prevented the US from transferring $50 million to Gaza to purchase condoms for Hamas.

Social media erupted in response to the assertions made by Trump and his new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt.

But are those perplexing claims backed up by any evidence?

CNN claims that it doesn’t.

Neither Leavitt nor Trump provided any supporting data, and the State Department declined to re-repeat Leavitt’s assertion.

In fiscal years 2023, 2022, and 2021—all during the administration of former President Joe Biden—no condoms were distributed to any Middle Eastern nation or territory, according to a 2024 government report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

According to CNN, in 2023, Jordan received approximately $46,000 worth of injectables and progestin-only contraceptive tablets, which were the only contraceptives provided to that region of the world.

According to CNN, USAID only spent about $8.2 million in 2023 on providing male and female condoms globally, with the majority of those donations going to African nations.

Male condoms accounted for $7.1 million of that $8.2 million.

Leavitt was effectively asserting Tuesday, as CNN reported, that the Biden administration had chosen to give more than six times the 2023 global condom value to a single, small territory with roughly 2.1 million people, which is located in an area that typically does not receive condoms from the United States.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce discussed stopping $102 million in unnecessary financing, including contraceptive funds, to a contractor in Gaza.

She did not, however, specify what portion of the $102 million—which was supposed to support the American organization International Medical Corps—was allocated specifically for condoms, as CNN reported.

International Medical Corps said CNN on Wednesday that since October 7, 2023, the day of Hamas’s largest attack on Israel, the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] had given them almost $68 million for activities in Gaza. International Medical Corps said in the statement released on Wednesday that no U.S. government funds were utilized to purchase or distribute condoms, despite the fact that the group has publicly described its reproductive and sexual health services in Gaza, in addition to a range of other services ranging from cardiology to orthopedics.