{"id":32607,"date":"2025-07-31T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=32607"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:34:28","slug":"trump-administration-sends-10000000-worth-of-birth-control-to-be-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=32607","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration sends $10,000,000 worth of birth control to be burned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration is set to destroy just shy of $10 million worth of contraception at a cost of an additional $167,000 paid by the US taxpayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump’s<\/a> top dogs have signed off on the burning of contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices (IUDS) and implants, despite charities offering to distribute them free of charge.<\/p>\n

However, the Republican-run government would rather light up thousands of potentially life-saving supplies – which taxpayers in the US<\/a> have already spent $9.7 million purchasing.<\/p>\n

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It’s all part of the POTUS’ goal of shutting down USAID – which stands for the United States Agency for International Development, and is the world<\/a>‘s biggest provider of global aid.<\/p>\n

According to government data, in 2023, the US spent $68 billion on international aid, which equates to 0.6 percent of the government’s annual budget of $6.75 trillion.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered the destruction of millions of dollars worth of contraception at an additional cost of $167,000 to the US taxpayer (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

It’s part of the 79-year-old president’s plan of reducing the federal wage bill and overseas spending – something he has claimed is necessary to reduce national debt that currently sits at $36.7 trillion… although his new ‘big, beautiful bill’<\/a> is estimated to add a further $3.3 trillion to that list.<\/p>\n

However, despite taking the cheaper option, the Trump administration is prepared to take the US a further $167,000 in the red to get rid of the burden – despite the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) explaining that it was prepared to take on all the costs relating to holding, packaging and donating the goods.<\/p>\n

Head of IPPF\u2019s supply chain, Marcel Van Valen, has labelled the US Government’s argument that it would be cheaper to burn the products than distribute them as ‘utter nonsense’.<\/p>\n

He added that his charity<\/a> has even offered to take over the handling of them.<\/p>\n

“[IPPF has offered to] go and collect the products, to repack them [at] our cost and to do the distribution throughout the globe with our partners and even competitors in this space,” he explained per the Independent.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration has signed off the burning of contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices (IUDS) and implants (Getty Stock Image)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, the non-profit organization MSI Reproductive Choices also offered to take on the products.<\/p>\n

“This isn\u2019t about government efficiencies. This is about exporting an ideology that\u2019s harmful to women,\u201d its associate advocacy director, Sarah Shaw, said per the publication.<\/p>\n

“The annual contraceptive bill for Senegal for the entire country is $3m a year. So the contents of that warehouse could have met all of Senegal\u2019s contraceptive needs for three years. And instead, we\u2019re going to see massive shortages.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re going to see Senegalese women dying of unsafe abortion, girls having to drop out of school.”<\/p>\n

The items were being held in warehouses across France<\/a> and Belgium, but are now being transported to a specialist facility where they will be incinerated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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