A private congressional funding notice reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon found that the Biden administration sent $15 million of taxpayer money to Afghanistan to distribute "oral contraceptives and condoms."

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) earmarked the award last July and transmitted the funds to Afghanistan in August, the Beacon reported on Monday. The money was part of a larger $100 million package for the Middle Eastern country that was meant to support the "basic rights and freedoms" of women and girls who were living under Taliban rule.

The government agency admitted that the funds would include some coordination with the Taliban, for "programmatic purposes," which could be a violation of U.S. law. The law bans the U.S. from sending money to the Taliban, but the agency said the money would not directly benefit the terrorist organization. 

"Although some coordination will be necessary for programmatic purposes, USAID and its partners are clear that there will be no direct assistance to the Taliban," the notice read. "Due diligence will continue to be exercised to ensure compliance with OFAC sanctions and statutory restrictions on assistance to the Taliban and that programs have robust safeguards in place to prevent Taliban interference or diversion."

The funding was allocated just months before a federal oversight body monitoring the multibillion-dollar investment in Afghanistan determined the government had failed to adequately combat gender-based violence within the country. 

The revelation of the funding comes after Trump placed a 90-day pause on foreign aid in order to review and evaluate all foreign assistance programs.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast is also reassessing the State Department’s nearly $90 billion budget, in order to trim unnecessary expenses. 

"We will be doing a full State Department reauthorization," Mast said during a recent congressional roundtable discussion. "We will wake up, eat, sleep, and breathe to root out waste in the State Department and make America the partner of choice."

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.