The Trump administration said it is unable to prevent the allocation of Biden-era Title X grants to Planned Parenthood.
White House spokesman Kush Desai told media outlets on Tuesday afternoon that the administration could not fulfill its original goal of withholdingThe NIH has problems. Carelessly slashing its budget would create moreThe Title X family planning program provides grant funding to organizations that provide comprehensive family planning and preventive reproductive health services to low-income patients.
took office in 2021, his Department of Health and Human Services issued a five-year Title X grant to Planned Parenthood and several other reproductive health organizations as part of aWithin weeks of Trump taking office in January 2025, the HHS notified 22 grant recipients that their contracts were being terminated under the administration’s objective to no longer fund diversity, equity, and inclusion projects. Abortion-rights advocates challenged the funding decision in court and eventually pressured the administration into dispensing the allotted 2025 funds in December. The White House announced on Tuesday that it ultimately decided to dispense the 2026 funds allotted under the Biden grant on April 1, without starting a legal battle. in a statement that the administration issued “the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency.” “The Administration remains committed to realigning the Title X program with the President’s pro-life and pro-family agenda going forward,” Desai said. sent a letter earlier in March to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling on HHS to issue “a one-year full funding extension to all current Title X grantees.”that HHS would soon be issuing a new Notice of Funding Opportunities for the 2027 grant period, which the White House spokesman said “prioritizes life and promotes the pro-family agenda.” Neither spokesperson confirmed the amount of funds being distributed to Planned Parenthood and the other organizations, nor did they outline how they responded to the call from Democrats on this issue. The incident exacerbates underlying tensions between the Trump administration and anti-abortion advocates over the degree of urgency in completing the long-term goal of preventing any federal funding from going to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Title X funds are prohibited from directly funding abortions, but anti-abortion advocates argue that any dollars given to supplement other services at Planned Parenthood clinics free up resources for the clinic to perform abortions. Desai also said that HHS is continuing to effectuate the one-year Medicaid reimbursement pause for Planned Parenthood providers enacted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and that the administration “continues to scrap millions of taxpayer funding for the international abortion industry.” Despite the legal justification, anti-abortion advocates see the move to approve the funding as a betrayal of the socially conservative wing of the GOP. that the move “looks like a political calculation – a deeply misguided one” and an “inexplicable slap in the face to the pro-life GOP base.” “This is a clear abandonment as the first Trump administration enacted the Protect Life Rule to stop Title X funding of Planned Parenthood,” Dannenfelser said. “It should have been ‘Day One’ policy in the second administration. Instead, we are 14 months in and this hasn’t been prevented.”from the agency Cygnal and commissioned by SBA earlier this year that found 75% of Republican primary voters support divesting federal dollars from Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. About a third said they would be less enthusiastic about the midterm elections this November if GOP candidates abandon anti-abortion policies.
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