Republicans may not include language to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the next reconciliation bill, according to a report from the Washington Examiner. House Speaker Mike Johnson is supposedly not planning to include language defunding Planned Parenthood in the next Republican-led reconciliation bill, which Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed into law […]
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Republicans may not include language to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the next reconciliation bill, according to a report from the Washington Examiner.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is supposedly not planning to include language defunding Planned Parenthood in the next Republican-led reconciliation bill, which Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed into law last year.
That could ste up a showdown in the GOP with pro-life lawmakers fighting to get the language included.
It’s a decision that has drawn disappointment from pro-life advocates as the abortion business just reported killing a record 434,450 unborn babies in abortions in its latest annual report.
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The one-year ban on Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, which was included in President Donald Trump’s tax bill, is scheduled to expire on July 4. Johnsonis not considering adding the defunding provision to the upcoming party-line bill focused on Department of Homeland Security funding, according to a GOP leadership aide.
President Trump has set a June 1 deadline for the legislation amid a partial government shutdown tied to immigration enforcement.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has also pushed to keep the measure narrowly focused.
But pro-life groups have urged leaders to renew the prohibition using reconciliation, which bypasses the Senate filibuster. Under the current plan, funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection would come through reconciliation, with the rest of DHS funded through regular appropriations.
Noah Brandt, vice president of communications for the pro-life group Live Action, called the delay an unnecessary “loss” that could hand Planned Parenthood millions of dollars in federal funding.
“If they get two months of funding, that could be many tens of millions of dollars,” Brandt said. “And so, the members of Congress who are pro-life and care about this should be working as hard as they can to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
Planned Parenthood’s annual report for fiscal year 2024-2025 showed it killed 434,450 unborn babies in abortions, an 8% increase from 402,230 the previous year. The organization received $832 million in taxpayer funding, a 5% increase from the prior year. Over the past 25 years, it has killed nearly 8 million unborn babies in abortions and received more than $12.3 billion in taxpayer funds, according to the report.
Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said she wants the defunding language renewed without interruption.
“They need to keep it steady throughout,” she said.
Republican leaders have indicated they may address the issue in a separate reconciliation package later this year. However, with narrow majorities and midterm elections approaching, passage of another such bill remains uncertain.
The original House version of Trump’s tax bill included a 10-year defunding provision, but Senate rules limited it to one year.
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