{"id":2415301,"date":"2025-03-25T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-ceo-freaks-out-as-trump-admin-prepares-to-enact-major-funding-freeze-report\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:04:53","slug":"planned-parenthood-ceo-freaks-out-as-trump-admin-prepares-to-enact-major-funding-freeze-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthood-ceo-freaks-out-as-trump-admin-prepares-to-enact-major-funding-freeze-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood CEO Freaks Out as Trump Admin Prepares to Enact Major Funding Freeze: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fplanned-parenthood-ceo-freaks-out-as-trump-admin-prepares-to-enact-major-funding-freeze-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2415301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Trump administration plans to freeze funding for various organizations,including Planned parenthood,during a review of whether the funds were allocated for diversity,equity,and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. An executive order issued by President Trump on his first day in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">office directed federal agencies<\/a> to cease funding DEI programs. Reports indicate that approximately $120 million designated for Title X family planning grants is now under scrutiny, with planned Parenthood set to receive around $20 million of that funding. The funding freeze is anticipated to be publicly announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, criticized the administration\u2019s actions, arguing that cutting funding would restrict access to crucial health services such as contraceptives and cancer screenings. The article outlines the ongoing battle between the Trump administration&#8217;s pro-life policies, which include efforts to defund organizations like Planned Parenthood, and the previous administration&#8217;s attempts to support reproductive health services.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration will freeze funds going to various organizations, including Planned Parenthood, as it reviews whether the money was earmarked for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> on his first day in office directing federal government agencies to no longer fund DEI programs, according to a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/trump-administration-plans-to-freeze-family-planning-grants-541441be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $120 million was slated to still go out this year to support what are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/grant-programs\/title-x-service-grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Title X grants<\/a> for &ldquo;family planning,&rdquo; according to the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Planned Parenthood clinics in about a dozen states were set to receive roughly $20 million in family-planning grants this year,&rdquo; the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>The funding freeze has not been made public yet, but the administration is expected to make the announcement perhaps as early as this week.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The Trump admin will be defunding Planned Parenthood of tens of millions in Title X grants, per WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood killed nearly 400,000 babies last year.<\/p>\n<p>HUGE WIN from President Trump! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cObrnda9rj\">pic.twitter.com\/cObrnda9rj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilaGraceRose\/status\/1904585520757563709?\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/struggling-planned-parenthood-shut-prominent-manhattan-location-begs-taxpayer-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Parenthood<\/a> Federation of America, told the Journal, &ldquo;The Trump-Vance-Musk administration wants to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers by any means necessary, and they&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-harris-admin-accused-of-impeachable-offense-as-zelenskyy-is-flown-to-battleground-state-on-air-force-jet\/\" title=\"Biden-Harris Admin Accused of &#039;Impeachable Offense&#039; as Zelenskyy Is Flown to Battleground State on Air Force Jet\">ll end people&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s access to birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and more to do it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is the way Planned Parenthood plays the game, saying the federal money only goes toward health tests, cancer screenings, and similar programs, while downplaying, in this context, that it is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/our-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading abortion provider<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Money is, of course, fungible, so any federal funds supposedly earmarked for non-abortion services frees up other money Planned Parenthood receives from other sources to promote and conduct abortions.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, the Biden administration&rsquo;s Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule reversing a Trump ban on abortion referrals through federally funded clinics like Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This rule is a step forward for family planning care as it aims to strengthen and restore our nation&rsquo;s Title X program,&rdquo; then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama-health-forum\/fullarticle\/2785251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But days after taking office in January, Trump issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/01\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-enforces-overwhelmingly-popular-demand-to-stop-taxpayer-funding-of-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> &ldquo;to end the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Order recognizes that, for nearly five decades, Congress has enacted the Hyde Amendment and a series of additional laws to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortion. Contrary to this longstanding commonsense policy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-still-fighting-for-life-after-taking-on-abortion-subsidies\/\" title=\"Tuberville Still Fighting For Life After Taking On Abortion Subsidies\">previous administration embedded federal funding<\/a> of elective abortion in a wide variety of government programs,&rdquo; the White House noted.<\/p>\n<p>Other pro-life actions Trump took included reinstating and expanding on &ldquo;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hawley-hits-biden-flip-flopping-abortion-record-calls-policies-affront-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico City Policy<\/a>, ensuring that taxpayer money is not used to fund abortion globally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Further, the president &ldquo;issued a rule preventing Title X taxpayer funding&rdquo; from subsidizing the abortion industry.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting off all funding to Planned Parenthood would do that quite nicely. But for now, depriving the abortion provider of $20 million in taxpayer funds is a good first step.<\/p>\n<p>For all the talk last year that Trump was going soft on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-stance-abortion-follows-example-lincoln-set-abolition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> when he did not come out in support of a nationwide federal ban, he is building on the pro-life record of his first term.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop financing DEI programs, as reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. This year, $120 million was intended for Title X grants related to &#8220;family planning,&#8221; with approximately $20 million allocated to Planned Parenthood clinics across about a dozen states. Although the funding freeze has not been officially announced yet, it is anticipated that the administration will make a statement possibly within this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McGill-Johnson.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51647,4606,47258,37662,32640],"class_list":["post-2415301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-funding-freeze","tag-healthcare","tag-nonprofit-organizations","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-trump-administration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/McGill-Johnson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415305,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415301\/revisions\/2415305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}