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State Department Emails Reveal Confusion On Trump Administration Plan to Destroy $10 Million in Contraceptives

Internal State Department emails reveal confusion over plans to destroy nearly $10 million in USAID contraceptives, exposing misinformation, mounting costs and failed aid efforts. (Credit: Left: USAID Logo/Wikimedia Commons; Right: Areeya_Ann/Pexels)

Internal State Department emails have exposed widespread uncertainty within the Trump administration as officials debated plans to destroy nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives intended for some of the world's poorest countries.

The newly released correspondence suggests senior diplomats struggled to determine what was stored in a USAID warehouse in Geel, Belgium, even as discussions over the supplies were already underway.

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