WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is extending Biden-era loans to Planned Parenthood for a final year, The Daily Wire can first report, putting the White House at odds with pro-life leaders.
The White House paused the Biden-era grants in 2025, prompting a slew of legal challenges from Planned Parenthood and allied organizations. The Department of Health and Human Services unfroze the grants in January, prompting massive outcry from pro-life activists. Some pro-lifers told The Daily Signal at the time that the administration didn’t have a choice, since it withheld the funds to Planned Parenthood without amending 42 U.S. Code Part 300, which concerns family planning grants.
The Daily Wire began hearing rumblings on Monday evening that Planned Parenthood would receive that funding through next year. White House spokesman Kush Desai confirmed to The Daily Wire on Tuesday morning that the White House has come up against “significant legal challenges” in stopping the money from the Biden era Title X grants, but noted that this year will be the last that Planned Parenthood is funded by the grants.
“The administration has issued the fifth and final year of Title X grants that were locked in place during the Biden presidency,” he explained. “The administration faced significant legal challenges in stopping any of these dollars from going out.”
“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,” Desai said.
He noted that HHS will soon be releasing a new Title X funding opportunity for the next five-year funding cycle, one that will prioritize life and promote the administration’s pro-family agenda.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue “to faithfully execute the One Big Beautiful Bill’s defunding of Planned Parenthood in Medicaid spending, and the Administration continues to scrap millions of taxpayer funding for the international abortion industry,” he said.
Key leaders in the pro-life movement are still distraught at the idea of Planned Parenthood receiving so much money from the government. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, argues that funding the abortion giant means “propping up a business whose main purpose is to end the lives of innocent unborn children.” And she warns that failing to defend the unborn will cost the GOP at the polls in the midterm elections.
Trump addresses the Susan B. Anthony 11th Annual Campaign for Life Gala in 2018 (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“This is an inexplicable slap in the face to the pro-life GOP base,” she said on Tuesday. “Three out of 4 GOP base voters support defunding Planned Parenthood. One third of those voters say they’d be less enthusiastic about voting this November if the GOP abandons pro-life policies.”
Pro-life leaders are already angry that the Trump FDA has newly approved an abortion drug, has not reinstated safety measures on abortion drugs removed under the Biden administration, and kept a Biden FDA rule alive, allowing abortion drugs to be shipped to states that have banned them. The movement was also aghast when the president suggested lawmakers should be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment.
Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life, said that she and others have been told that Planned Parenthood is getting the funds because “the rules require it.”
“Let’s talk about that,” she posted on X. “If we are going to claim we must follow ‘the rules’ to fund abortion vendors, then we should also enforce the law that prohibits mailing Chemical Abortion Pills. The Comstock Act is already federal law, and it makes it ILLEGAL to traffic dangerous abortion drugs by mail. That law is being ignored thousands of times every single day, as we said in our letter to [Attorney General Pam Bondi] JUST EARLIER TODAY.”
She added: “The Trump Administration doesn’t get to ignore federal law when it comes to the predatory abortion industry and then reward the same industry with more taxpayer dollars!”
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