The Trump administration on Tuesday began withholding tens of millions in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other health-care providers, a move that will curtail access to services including cancer screenings and affordable birth control.
On Monday, Planned Parenthood said nine of its affiliates had received notice from the administration that it would withhold funding from Title X, the nationwide family-planning program. Since 1970, Title X has provided federal funding to health centers for family planning aid and reproductive health care, including birth control and other nonabortion services — including about $286 million in the 2024 fiscal year.
In total, Title X funding is being withheld from 16 organizations while the Department of Health and Human Services, which provides the awards for the program, investigates “possible violations of their grant terms,” the agency said in a statement to The Washington Post on Tuesday. Experts say the funding freeze will imperil low-income and uninsured or underinsured people who have relied on clinics funded by the half-century-old program from getting affordable health care. The freeze leaves seven states with no Title X funding as of Tuesday, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents publicly funded family planning organizations around the nation.
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Clare Coleman, president of the association, said the move sends Title X, which she described as a “public health success story,” into disarray.
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“It shows a profound misunderstanding of what the Title X program was intended to do by Congress,” Coleman said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment Monday night.
The administration’s move to cut funding was first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week before Planned Parenthood announced it publicly Monday. Officials planned to freeze the funding while they investigated whether any of it had been used for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Journal reported.
An HHS spokesperson said Tuesday that the agency would evaluate how Title X awards were used against federal measures, including a February executive order President Donald Trump signed to cut federal funding from programs he said were giving benefits to immigrants in the country illegally. Proof of U.S. citizenship is not required to receive care under Title X.
“They may be pursuing an ideological goal of this administration, but the real-life impact on people who need care and who rely on these community-based health-care centers is just going to be horrific and devastating,” Coleman said.
Of Planned Parenthood’s 40 Title X-funded affiliates, which operate around 300 health centers in the country, the nine that received notice include: Planned Parenthood Association of Utah; Planned Parenthood Greater Texas Family Planning; Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky; Planned Parenthood Greater Ohio; Planned Parenthood North Central States; Planned Parenthood Northern New England for New Hampshire; Planned Parenthood South Atlantic; Planned Parenthood Southern New England for Connecticut; and Virginia League of Planned Parenthood Virginia.
On Monday, Planned Parenthood said nine of its affiliates had received notice from the administration that it would withhold funding from Title X, the nationwide family-planning program. Since 1970, Title X has provided federal funding to health centers for family planning aid and reproductive health care, including birth control and other nonabortion services — including about $286 million in the 2024 fiscal year.
In total, Title X funding is being withheld from 16 organizations while the Department of Health and Human Services, which provides the awards for the program, investigates “possible violations of their grant terms,” the agency said in a statement to The Washington Post on Tuesday. Experts say the funding freeze will imperil low-income and uninsured or underinsured people who have relied on clinics funded by the half-century-old program from getting affordable health care. The freeze leaves seven states with no Title X funding as of Tuesday, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents publicly funded family planning organizations around the nation.
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Clare Coleman, president of the association, said the move sends Title X, which she described as a “public health success story,” into disarray.
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“It shows a profound misunderstanding of what the Title X program was intended to do by Congress,” Coleman said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment Monday night.
The administration’s move to cut funding was first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week before Planned Parenthood announced it publicly Monday. Officials planned to freeze the funding while they investigated whether any of it had been used for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Journal reported.
An HHS spokesperson said Tuesday that the agency would evaluate how Title X awards were used against federal measures, including a February executive order President Donald Trump signed to cut federal funding from programs he said were giving benefits to immigrants in the country illegally. Proof of U.S. citizenship is not required to receive care under Title X.
“They may be pursuing an ideological goal of this administration, but the real-life impact on people who need care and who rely on these community-based health-care centers is just going to be horrific and devastating,” Coleman said.
Of Planned Parenthood’s 40 Title X-funded affiliates, which operate around 300 health centers in the country, the nine that received notice include: Planned Parenthood Association of Utah; Planned Parenthood Greater Texas Family Planning; Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky; Planned Parenthood Greater Ohio; Planned Parenthood North Central States; Planned Parenthood Northern New England for New Hampshire; Planned Parenthood South Atlantic; Planned Parenthood Southern New England for Connecticut; and Virginia League of Planned Parenthood Virginia.
