{"id":60149,"date":"2025-01-29T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60149"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:15:48","slug":"trump-halts-50m-gaza-aid-cites-condom-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-halts-50m-gaza-aid-cites-condom-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Halts  &#8216;Condom&#8217; Distribution in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has suspended a $50 million foreign aid program allegedly earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza, citing it as a waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the decision during her first press briefing, attributing the discovery to Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>However, no evidence was provided to support the claim. The move is part of a broader freeze on foreign aid, including a $37 million cut to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that most aid disbursements remain suspended, except for emergency food assistance and military support for Egypt and Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal U.S. President Donald Trump has suspended a $50 million foreign aid program allegedly earmarked for condom distribution in Gaza, citing it as a waste of taxpayer money. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the decision during her first press briefing, attributing the discovery to Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60170,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60149\/revisions\/60170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}