By Moira Gleason, The Daily Signal | April 02, 2025
The Trump administration is following through on its promise to withhold funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
Nine Planned Parenthood regional affiliates received notice Monday that the federal funding they were receiving through the law known as Title X is being temporarily withheld, according to a report from Politico.
The administration is looking into possible violations of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government and by federal contractors and his order preventing illegal aliens from obtaining taxpayer-funded benefits.
Title X, enacted as a bipartisan measure in the 1970s, provides public funding for family planning services. More than 300 Planned Parenthood facilities are in the Title X network, according to the abortion provider.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will withhold payments pending its evaluation of possible violations.
“HHS is conducting this evaluation to ensure these entities are in full compliance with federal law and applicable grant terms and to ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,” HHS deputy press secretary Emily Hilliard told The Daily Signal.
The department gave the Planned Parenthood affiliates 10 days to provide evidence that they will comply with Trump’s executive orders, according to Politico, and will inform them after that time if their grants are suspended or terminated.
Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office mandating all federal agencies prohibit grant recipients from promoting or participating in DEI efforts. And his order “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders” aims to prevent illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.
“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement.
“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI [sexually transmitted infections] crisis worsens,” she said. “Planned Parenthood Action Fund will fight to get this funding restored and to keep politicians out of health care.”
Planned Parenthood performed approximately 400,000 abortions in 2023, The Daily Signal previously reported.
The funding pause comes after The Wall Street Journal reported the Trump administration will put on hold about $120 million in grant funding for “family planning” as it reviews whether recipients are in violation of Trump’s executive orders. According to the report, the proposed cuts could withhold about $20 million specifically from Planned Parenthood facilities in about 12 states.
Moira Gleason is a Daily Signal journalism intern.
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