{"id":2898,"date":"2025-07-31T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:33:24","slug":"trump-to-burn-10m-taxpayer-funded-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"Trump to burn $10M taxpayer-funded birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>U.S. to Burn $10M in Contraceptives Meant for Aid<\/strong><br>The Trump administration is set to destroy nearly $10 million in unused contraceptives funded by U.S. taxpayers, instead of delivering them to global health programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The supplies, stored in Belgium, include IUDs, implants, and hormone-based pills, many of which don\u2019t expire until 2027 or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ideological Cuts Over Efficiency<\/strong><br>The destruction follows the shutdown of USAID and a shift of foreign aid under the State Department. A congressional aide called it \u201cquite literally burning taxpayer money,\u201d while Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the move as a return to aligned policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ignored Offers to Reuse<\/strong><br>Organizations like MSI Reproductive Choices offered to take and distribute the supplies at no cost, but the administration refused. \u201cWe were not given a reason,\u201d said MSI\u2019s Grace Dunne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Global Impact<\/strong><br>\u201cThis is about exporting an ideology that\u2019s harmful to women,\u201d said Sarah Shaw of MSI. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see Senegalese women dying of unsafe abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. to Burn $10M in Contraceptives Meant for AidThe Trump administration is set to destroy nearly $10 million in unused contraceptives funded by U.S. taxpayers, instead of delivering them to global health programs. The supplies, stored in Belgium, include IUDs, implants, and hormone-based pills, many of which don\u2019t expire until 2027 or later. Ideological Cuts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}