Sen. Hawley demands investigation into $1.5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding allegedly used by Planned Parenthood for transgender procedures.
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Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , is appealing to the House after the Senate failed to renew a ban preventing taxpayer dollars from being used for trans kids' sex changes. to Planned Parenthood is about to lapse, and a Senate Republican wants to investigate piles of taxpayer money that has allegedly been used by the organization to push transgender procedures. Sen.
Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital, is demanding that Planned Parenthood be put under a microscope for roughly $1.5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding that he alleges"are flowing to an organization that promotes transgender treatments on minors.
" SEN HAWLEY WARNS IT WOULD BE 'UNCONSCIONABLE' IF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FLOW TO TRANS KIDS’ SEX CHANGES Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , speaks during Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 30, 2024, as he launches an investigation into Meta over reports of AI chatbots engaging in inappropriate interactions with children.
Hawley wants Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Administrator Mehmet Oz to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood as part of the agency’s continued pursuit to uncover fraud inpackage to keep the ban going failing earlier this year. That amendment would have extended the ban on providing Medicaid funding to abortion providers until 2035.
His focus now is on uncovering whether the $1.5 billion in funding was directed toward pushing minors toward gender-affirming medication or referring minors for gender-affirming surgical procedures. Lydia Taylor Davis holds a sign reading"Defund Planned Parenthood" at the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit in San Antonio in June 2025.
"The organization openly advertises that it provides sex-change drugs and refers for transgender surgeries," Hawley said. "According to one recent report, Planned Parenthood’s provision of this so-called"gender-affirming care" has exploded — with a 40% year-over-year increase.
" Hawley is pinpointing a stream of money between 2019 and 2022 that was tracked by the Government Accountability Office in a report first published in"In other words, billions of taxpayer dollars have been taken from those in poverty and the elderly and given to Planned Parenthood," Hawley said. "Moreover, these funds apparently have been used to prop up Planned Parenthood’s provision of transgender procedures to children. "
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