Planned Parenthood Sues Trump Admin To Keep Taxpayer Cash Flowing

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday in response to funding cuts included in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which threaten to shutter hundreds of its clinics.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed the GOP’s massive tax and spending bill, which includes language blocking Medicaid funding for abortion providers for one year. Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for the provision, which it alleges unconstitutionally “targets” the organization.

“If this ‘defund’ is allowed to stand, it would have devastating consequences for the more than 1 million patients who use Medicaid as their insurance at Planned Parenthood health centers across the country to get birth control, cancer screenings, and more,” Planned Parenthood said. “If this unconstitutional law is not stopped, the consequences will be nothing short of a public health crisis.”

The new Medicaid provision is expected to have a significant impact on the nation’s largest provider of abortion