Report: Trump administration extends Biden-era Planned Parenthood funding another year
Caroline MolloyThe Trump administration is extending Biden-era Title X family planning grants to Planned Parenthood for one final year due to legal challenges in halting the payments, the Daily Wire reported March 31.
White House spokesman Kush Desai told the outlet that the extension results from “significant legal challenges” the administration faced “in stopping any of these dollars from going out.”
Title X is a federal program that subsidizes family planning services for low-income individuals and includes a “broad range of services related to achieving pregnancy, preventing pregnancy, and assisting women, men, and couples with achieving their desired number and spacing of children,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While federal law prohibits using these funds for abortion, pro-lifers have argued that the program still helps subsidize abortion providers’ operations.
“This is the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency,” Desai said. “Title X funds cannot be used for abortions by law and, consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, the administration remains committed to realigning the Title X program with the president’s pro-life and pro-family agenda going forward.”
