Senate parliamentarian OKs ban on Planned Parenthood federal funding in Trump megabill
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Republicans secure one-year ban on Medicaid funding for abortion providers in budget package, while Democrats condemn the move as an attack on Planned Parenthood.
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"The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that stops forced taxpayer funding of the abortion industry has been retained in the Senate bill, as we were confident it would, though for one year. This is a huge win," Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America’s President, Marjorie Dannenfelser, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Taxpayers should never be forced to funnel their hard-earned dollars to Big Abortion. This funding currently hits almost $800 million annually."
The provision's inclusion, meanwhile, was condemned by Democrats as essentially clearing the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
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