Saturday, February 1, 2025

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt hits peak on bullshit meter


Headline:  Washington Post, 1/29/2025
Let’s start with why the U.S. government distributes condoms overseas: It’s to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. [emphasis added]
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Indeed, according to the report, spending $50 million on condoms for an entity roughly double the size of Washington would be a huge increase in condom spending. From fiscal 2016 to 2022, USAID spent $118.6 million to buy 3.6 billion male condoms for 60 countries. That’s an average of $17 million a year for the entire world — one-third of the amount Leavitt said would be spent just on Gaza. (USAID also distributes female condoms, but that’s a small fraction of the spending.)


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