'Whoa, whoa, whoa!' CNN anchor loses it over claims US sent condoms to the Taliban

There was some confusion Thursday on the set of CNN's "News Central" when Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) claimed the U.S. has spent millions of dollars on condoms for the Taliban.

Carter is on the DOGE Caucus, charged with finding inefficiencies in government spending, and his assertion took anchor Boris Sanchez aback.

Carter claimed, "The U.S. aid that was cut off should have been cut off. I mean, $15 million in condoms for the Taliban? $47,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia? Please!"

"Wait, sir -- woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!" Sanchez exclaimed. "$15 million for the Taliban?"

"That's what they discovered," Carter said.

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"Are you conflating things?" Sanchez asked. "Are you talking about the $50 million that was supposedly meant for condoms in Gaza? Are you conflating those, sir?"

"I am not," Carter assured him. "This is the type of thing they're finding and this is the type of thing we want them to find. There is inefficiency there. When you find a government as big and as bloated as we have you're going to find inefficiencies like this. And that's why we need DOGE. That's why we need to identify these efficiencies. I was born at night but I wasn't born last night. Don't try to pull this over me here, OK? And that's what we're talking about here."

"I will look into that supposed $10 million [sic] for the Taliban. It sounds a little like the false claim that we've heard about $50 million for Gaza, which is way incorrect. Actually, it was $100 million the last time I heard President Trump say it."

According to the International Medical Corp., “No U.S. government funding was used to procure or distribute condoms, nor provide family-planning services” to Hamas in Gaza.

"Congressman, I got to tell you, $50 million [sic] for condoms to the Taliban. The U.S. government apparently procures condoms at about three cents each one. That's a lot of condoms. Are you standing by that, sir? We're going to fact-check it. We're going to have you back on and ask you about it."

"That's fine," Carter said.

A video put out by the House Foreign Affairs Committee backed up Carter's claims about "$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID." Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) narrated the video, " exposing radical, far-left grants issued by the State Department and United States Agency for International Development under the Biden administration." He did not provide proof of the $15 million figure.

Watch the clip below via CNN.