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Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood

The Title X funds were earmarked for birth control and other non-abortion services.

The Trump administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood clinics that provide contraception, STI testing and other health services to low-income Americans. | Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

By Alice Miranda Ollstein

03/31/2025 05:59 PM EDT

The Trump administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood clinics that provide contraception, STI testing and other health services to low-income Americans.

Nine Planned Parenthood state affiliates that receive federal money from the 55-year-old Title X family planning program got notices Monday, which they shared with POLITICO, informing them that their funding is being “temporarily withheld.” The notice pointed to “possible violations” of federal civil rights law and President Donald Trump’s executive orders — including prohibitions on promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion and “taxpayer subsidization of open borders.”

The letter to Planned Parenthood chapters, many of them in GOP-controlled states, cites the clinics’ mission statements and other public documents that stress a “commitment to black communities” as evidence of their noncompliance. Amy Margolis, the deputy........

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