(CV) The Trump administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood facilities, according to an exclusive breaking news article published by POLITICO on the evening of Monday, March 31.
According to POLITICO, nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates that receive federal money from the 55-year-old Title X family planning program received a letter on Monday announcing that their funding is being “temporarily withheld” for “possible violations” of federal civil rights law and President Donald Trump’s executive orders — including prohibitions on the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Funding is also being withheld, according to the article, because the organization “overtly encourages illegal aliens to receive care.”
“HHS is giving Planned Parenthood 10 days to provide evidence that it will comply with the Trump administration’s executive orders, and will inform the group after that whether the grants are suspended or terminated,” POLITICO explained.
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HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told POLITICO that the agency is withholding payments to 16 Title X providers, including the nine Planned Parenthood affiliates, “to ensure these entities are in full compliance with Federal law and applicable grant terms, and to ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.”
“Other providers in the federal family planning program received notices late last week, over the weekend and on Monday about their 2025 Title X funding,” the outlet also reported. “Many received less than half of what they requested.”
According to POLITICO, when Trump’s first administration issued rules that banned Title X providers from referring patients for abortions, “more than a dozen grantees who collectively ran more than 900 clinics nationwide quit the Title X program in protest, including 11 state health departments and all participating Planned Parenthood affiliates”.
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The Biden administration scrapped Trump’s Title X rule in 2021, but a Planned Parenthood spokesperson told POLITICO that the network has not fully recovered.
“She pointed as evidence to HHS’s most recent audit of the program, from 2023, which found the program served about 2.8 million people — far fewer than the 4 million patients a year it was serving when Trump first took office in 2017,” the article stated.
Editor's note: This article was published by Catholic Vote and is reprinted with permission.
