CNN Anchor Stunned By Republican’s Wild USAID Claim: ‘Are You Conflating Things?’ | EUROtoday

CNN anchor Boris Sanchez was shocked Thursday after Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) pushed a weird declare on air about how the United States Agency for International Development spent its cash.

The declare arrived when Sanchez requested Carter if cost-cutting crusader Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had the authority to “supersede” him and his colleagues after the billionaire’s associates reportedly appeared to close down USAID funds utilizing the Treasury Department’s fee system.

“Of course, it doesn’t. Look, the aid that was the U.S. aid that was cut off should’ve been cut off. I mean, $15 million for condoms for the Taliban and—” mentioned Carter earlier than Sanchez interjected.

“Sir, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,” the CNN anchor mentioned.

“Hold on, $47,000 to a transgender opera in Colombia? Please,” Carter added.

“$15 million for condoms for the Taliban?” Sanchez requested.

“That’s what we hear and that’s what they discovered. I mean—” Carter mentioned.

“Are you conflating things?” Sanchez mentioned. “Are you talking about the $50 million that was supposedly meant for condoms in Gaza?”

The declare from Carter echoes one made by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who alleged in a video Tuesday that $15 million stemming from “radical, far-left” State Department grants and USAID cash went to condoms for the Taliban.

The contraceptives weren’t for the Taliban however, quite, for Afghan residents, The Atlantic’s Russell Berman famous.

The declare is much like one other debunked one pushed by President Donald Trump, who mentioned his administration “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”

Carter insisted he wasn’t conflating issues.

“This is the type of thing that they’re finding and this is the kind of thing that we want him to find. There is inefficiency. When you have a government as big and bloated as we have, you’re going to find inefficiencies like this,” mentioned Carter who supported the necessity for the nonofficial “department.”