How DOGE cuts devastated an HIV/AIDS organization in Mozambique
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
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Mozambique has the second-largest AIDS epidemic in the world. And Gaza province is the hardest hit spot in the country. NPR's Juana Summers recently traveled there to see how the Trump administration’s cuts left aid organizations scrambling.
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, how global confusion |
| 0:07.1 | and doge cuts reached all the way to Gaza province in Mozambique. We identified and stopped |
| 0:12.6 | $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas, 50 million. |
| 0:21.4 | That was President Trump early in his second term, bragging about cuts from Elon Musk's |
| 0:26.2 | Doge team. |
| 0:27.1 | And you know what's happened to them? |
| 0:29.1 | They've used them as a method of making bombs. |
| 0:32.6 | How about that? |
| 0:33.6 | In fact, no condoms were being sent anywhere in the Middle East, but the narrative was being spread by the president's supporters, like Fox News host Jesse Waters. |
| 0:42.5 | That's right. Hamas floats these things up with bomb-making materials and then kabum. |
| 0:49.3 | Boobie-trapped condom. Look it up. |
| 0:51.7 | Journalists did look it up and concluded that the Gaza in question was probably Gaza province |
| 0:57.1 | in Mozambique Africa. But that hardly seemed to matter. Standing in the Oval Office, |
| 1:02.2 | Musk told reporters, some of the things that I say will be incorrect. Nobody's going to bat a thousand. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I'm like, okay, that's not as bad, but still, |
| 1:11.6 | you know, why are we doing that? |
| 1:14.5 | Consider this. |
| 1:15.8 | Mozambique has the second largest AIDS epidemic in the world, and Gaza province is the hardest hit |
| 1:21.4 | spot in the country. |
| 1:22.8 | I recently traveled there to see how the Trump administration's cuts left aid organizations |
| 1:27.3 | scrambling. |
| 1:30.2 | From NPR, I'm Juana Summers. |
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