$9.7M Birth Control Bonfire: State Department Torches Africa Aid Stockpile

While the State Department enacts its $167,000 disposal, Belgian warehouses echo with silence as bipartisan US senators and UN groups protest. Top queries about “foreign aid waste” and “Trump’s USAID shutdown” surface, but only the labels are missing—two-thirds of packages are blank, and the world’s largest donor to family planning effectively becomes the world’s most expensive birth control pyromaniac. “This is a waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars,” says Senator Shaheen, as 650,000 women’s futures go up in smoke.
Birth control worth $9.7M, destined for Africa, meets a warehouse inferno as “USAID destroyed contraceptives” and “Mexico City Policy” trend. Visualize a fire fueled by bureaucracy and irony—2 million doses gone, but not a single condom lost in the blaze.